Duration: 5 Days

Get the most out of your 10g Database by learning performance tuning methods that maximize the utility of the database. Students learn how to benefit from Oracle Database 10g automatic tuning features, as well as practicing the manual tuning methods using the statspack tool. After clearly defining the various methodologies one can use to tune an Oracle Database, the course covers the various tunable components of an Oracle Database. Throughout the course, students experience hands-on the tuning of an Oracle Database by practicing through a series of workshops.

Target Audience
• Database Administrators
• Support Engineer
• Technical Consultant

Prerequisites
Knowledge of Database Administration
Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I
Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop II

Course Objectives

• Use the Oracle Database tuning methodology appropriate to the available tool
• Utilize database advisors to proactively tune an Oracle database
• Use the tools based on the Automatic Workload Repository to tune the database
• Use Statspack reports to tune the database
• Diagnose and tune common database performance problems
• Use Enterprise Manager performance-related pages to monitor an Oracle database

Course Outline

• Performance Tuning Overview
• Statistics and Wait Events
• Metrics, Alerts, and Baselines
• Using Statspack
• Using AWR
• Reactive Tuning
• Tuning the Shared Pool
• Tuning the Buffer Cache
• Automatic Shared Memory
• Checkpoint and Redo Tuning
• Tuning I/O
• Tuning PGA and Temporary Space
• Tuning Block Space Usage
• Initial Configuration

Suggested Follow-Up Courses
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 2
Oracle Database 10g: SQL Tuning Workshop
Oracle Database 10g: Real Application Clusters