Course Outline

Application tuning methodology

  • Finding the problem
  • Diagnosing the cause
  • Applying the solution

Command execution process SQL

  • The process of parsing and sharing cursors
  • Adaptive cursors

Analysis of the command execution plan

  • Ways to obtain hypothetical and actual query plan (EXPLAIN PLAN, DBMS_XPLAN, SQLPlus Autotrace)
  • Marking the order of algorithm steps
  • Interpretation of the contents of the plan tree
  • Adaptive plans

Cost optimization process and cost optimizer operation control

  • Properties of cost and rule optimization
  • Session and instance parameters
  • Hints
  • Query plan patterns (outlines)
  • Managing query plans (baselines)
  • Patching commands
  • Profiles and SQL Tuning Advisor

Statistics and histograms

  • The impact of statistics and histograms on performance
  • Methods of collecting statistics and histograms
  • Strategies for counting and estimating statistics, ad hoc sampling
  • Statistics management: blocking, copying, editing, collecting automation, monitoring changes
  • Multi-column, expression-based statistics
  • System and dictionary statistics
  • Adaptive statistics

Optimization of full reading through proper space management

  • When to use full reading
  • Block and segment space allocation, high water indicator, PCTFREE
  • The impact of DML operations and space allocation on read performance
  • Loading data via conventional and direct paths
  • Physical data reorganization, truncation, defragmentation, reconstruction

Full read optimization by physically separating "hot data"

  • Temporary boards
  • Partitioning
  • Materialized views

Full read optimization through data compression

  • OLTP compression
  • OLAP compression

Read optimization via index

  • The concept of ROWID
  • Construction of BTREE indices
  • Comparison of the effectiveness of data access through the BTREE and FULL SCAN indexes
  • The impact of indexes on DML operations
  • Strategies for creating and deleting indexes
  • "Good" and "bad" index, the impact of the entropy of physical data arrangement on the costs of index use
  • Index properties and statistics
  • Reading types: UNIQUE, RANGE, SKIP, FULL, FAST FULL, MIN/MAX
  • Index types: unique, functional, multi-column, reverse-keyed, local/global, virtual, private
  • NULL values in indexes
  • Index Organized Boards (IOT)
  • Bitmap and join indexes

Optimization of the sorting process

  • Memory sorting
  • Index sorts
  • Linguistic sorting

Optimization of joins and subqueries

  • Connection methods: MERGE, HASH, NESTED LOOP
  • Joins in OLTP and OLAP systems
  • Star joints
  • Connection sequence
  • Outer joins

Monitor performance and find process bottlenecks with SQLTrace

  • Database session/process tracking
  • Application/user session tracking in a leased database connection model
  • TkProf tool, TrcSess

Code Performance PL/SQL

  • Using literal values in commands SQL
    - Rules for sharing cursors
    - Adaptive cursors
  • Correct way of communication SQL, PL/SQL
    - Cursors and mass operations
    - Custom functions in SQL
    - Caching function results
  • Passing parameters via copy/pointer
  • Feathering short procedures at compilation stage
  • Compiler optimization levels
  • Native build
  • Other aspects of optimization PL/SQL

Requirements

Free use of language SQL and PL/SQL. Practical experience working with Oracle or other relational database engine.

 28 Hours

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