
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning
Murali Vallath(Author)
APress
Published on 7. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXVII, 712 pages
978-1-4302-6709-6 (ISBN)
Description
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning provides comprehensive coverage of the features, technology and principles for testing and tuning RAC databases. The book takes a deep look at optimizing RAC databases by following a methodical approach based on scientific analysis rather than using a speculative approach, twisting and turning knobs and gambling on the system.The book starts with the basic concepts of tuning methodology, capacity planning, and architecture. Author Murali Vallath then dissects the various tiers of the testing implementation, including the operating system, the network, the application, the storage, the instance, the database, and the grid infrastructure. He also introduces tools for performance optimization and thoroughly covers each aspect of the tuning process, using many real-world examples, analyses, and solutions from the field that provide you with a solid, practical, and replicable approach to tuning a RAC environment. The book concludes with troubleshooting guidance and quick reference of all the scripts used in the book.Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning covers scenarios and details never discussed before in any other performance tuning books. If you have a RAC database, this book is a requirement. Get your copy today.Takes you through optimizing the various tiers of the RAC environment.Provides real life case studies, analysis and solutions from the field.Maps a methodical approach to testing, tuning and diagnosing the cluster
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Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Publishing group
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Target group
Popular/general
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
205 s/w Abbildungen
XXVII, 712 p. 205 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1305 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4302-6709-6 (9781430267096)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4302-6710-2
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Murali Vallath
Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning
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Person
Vallath has more than 26 years of IT experience including over 20 years using Oracle products. Vallath is an Oracle ACE Director and president of All India Oracle Users Group (www.aioug.org). He has worked on a variety of database platforms for small to very large implementations, designing databases for high volume, machine critical, real time OLTP systems. His expertise is with Oracle RAC. Vallath released his second book titled Oracle 10g RAC, Grid, Services and Clustering in March 2006 and has co-authored his third book titled Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) November 2007, from Oracle Press. Vallath currently provides independent consulting services in the areas of capacity planning, high availability solutions and performance tuning of Oracle environments through Summersky Enterprises (www.summersky.biz) with operations in USA and India. He has successfully completed over 100 successful small, medium and terabyte sized RAC implementations for reputed corporate firms. His recent experiences are with archiving historical data for datamarts on Exadata servers. Vallath is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including the Oracle Open World, AIOUG and others on Oracle RAC and Oracle RDBMS Performance and Tuning related topics. Vallath blogs at www.muralivallath.com.
Content
1. Methodology 2. Capacity Planning and Architecture 3. Testing for Availability 4. Testing for Scalability 5. Real Application Testing 6. Tools and Utilities 7. SQL Tuning 8. Parallel Query Tuning 9. Tuning the Database 10. Tuning Recovery 11. Tuning Oracle Net 12. Tuning Storage Subsystem 13. Tuning Global Cache 14. Tuning the Cluster Interconnect 15. Optimization of Distributed Workload 16. Tuning the Oracle Clusterware 17. Enqueues, Waits and Latches 18. Problem Diagnostics A. The SQL Scripts Used in This Book Bibliography