Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations 1. Performance Problems 2. Key Concepts Part II: Identification 3. Analysis of Reproducible Problems 4. Real-Time Analysis of Irreproducible Problems 5. Postmortem Analysis of Irreproducible Problems Part III: Query Optimizer 6. Introducing the Query Optimizer 7. System Statistics 8. Object Statistics 9. Configuring the Query Optimizer 10. Execution Plans Part IV: Optimization 11. SQL Tuning Techniques 12. Parsing 13. Optimizing Data Access 14. Optimizing Joins 15. Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization 16. Optimizing the Physical Design Appendix A

About the Author

Since 1995, Christian Antognini has been focusing on understanding how the Oracle database engine works. His main interests range from logical and physical database design, to the integration of databases with Java applications, the query optimizer, and basically everything else related to performance management and tuning. He is working as a senior consultant and trainer at Trivadis AG in Z rich, Switzerland. If he is not helping one of his customers to get the most out of Oracle, he is somewhere lecturing on optimization or new Oracle database features for developers. He is member of the Trivadis Performance Team and of the OakTable Network).