Optimizing Oracle Performance

Cary Millsap, Jeff Holt9780596005276, 059600527X

This book describes a method for optimizing the performance of an Oracle system, but it goes an important step further. The method prescribed in this book optimizes the performance of the whole performance improvement project. The goal of this book is not to make one system faster it is to make you faster and more efficient at optimizing any system.
This book focuses more completely upon performance problem diagnosis than upon repair tasks. In my experience, diagnosis is where people usually mess up. There are lots of experts out there responding sensibly to poorly collected diagnostic data in poorly specified projects. It is usually easy to solve a problem when it is presented to you correctly. It can be impossible to solve the right problem when youre focused on the wrong problem. This book contains many examples of working on the wrong problem, and it explains how never to make that mistake again.