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Course Outline
Application Tuning Methodology
Database and Instance Architecture
- Server processes
- Memory structures (SGA, PGA)
- Parsing and shared cursors
- Data files, log files, and parameter files
Execution Plan Analysis
- Estimated execution plans (EXPLAIN PLAN, SQL*Plus AUTOTRACE)
- Actual execution plans (V$SQL_PLAN, XPlan, AWR)
Performance Monitoring and Bottleneck Identification
- Monitoring current instance status via data dictionary views
- Monitoring historical data in system views
- Application tracing (SQL Trace, TKProf, TraceSess)
Optimization Process
- Cost-based optimizer properties and controls
- Optimizer modes
Controlling the Cost-Based Optimizer
- Session and instance parameters
- Hints
- Query execution plan outlines
Statistics and Histograms
- Impact of statistics and histograms on performance
- Methods for collecting statistics and histograms
- Strategies for collecting and estimating statistics
- Statistics management: blocking, copying, editing, automation, and change monitoring
- Dynamic data sampling (temporary tables, complex predicates)
- Multi-column statistics and expression-based statistics
- System statistics
Logical and Physical Database Structure
- Tablespaces
- Segments
- Extents
- Blocks
Data Storage Methods
- Physical table structures
- Temporary tables
- Index-organized tables
- External tables
- Partitioned tables (range, list, hash, composite)
- Physical table reorganization
Materialized Views and Query Rewrite Mechanism
Data Indexing Methods
- Building B-TREE indexes
- Index characteristics
- Index types: unique, multi-column, function-based, reverse key
- Compressed indexes
- Index rebuilding and coalescing
- Virtual indexes
- Private and public indexes
- Bitmap indexes and bitmaps
Case Study: Full Table Scans
- Impact of table block placement and read performance
- Conventional load and direct-path load methods
- Predicate ordering
Case Study: Index-Based Data Access
- Index read methods (UNIQUE SCAN, RANGE SCAN, FULL SCAN, FAST FULL SCAN, MIN/MAX SCAN)
- Utilizing function-based indexes
- Index selectivity (Cluster Factor)
- Multi-column indexes and skip scan
- NULL values and indexing
- Index-organized tables (IOT)
- Impact of indexes on DML operations
Case Study: Sorting Operations
- In-memory sorting
- Index-based sorting
- Linguistic sorting
- Impact of data entropy on sorting (Cluster Factor)
Case Study: Joins and Subqueries
- Join methods: MERGE, HASH, NESTED LOOP
- Joins in OLTP and OLAP systems
- Join order determination
- Outer Joins
- Anti-joins
- Semi-joins
- Simple subqueries
- Correlated subqueries
- Views and the WITH clause
Other Cost-Based Optimizer Operations
- Buffer Sort
- IN-LIST ITERATOR
- VIEW
- FILTER
- COUNT STOPKEY
- Result Cache
Distributed Queries
- Reading execution plans involving database links
- Selecting the driving site
Parallel Processing
Requirements
- Proficiency in basic SQL and familiarity with the Oracle database environment (ideally following the 'Native SQL for Programmers' workshop training)
- Practical experience working with Oracle databases
28 Hours
Testimonials (2)
1. I liked the trainer's style of presenting and the patience to explain. 2. I liked that the trainer answered our side questions, even the ones that took the discussion a bit farther from the presentation, which showed flexibility. 3. I liked that there was a practical lab, not just a theoretical part. 4. I liked that it was online.
Roxana - DB Global Technology
Course - Oracle 11g - Application Tuning - Workshop
Trainer expertise on SQL tuning
