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Overview Oracle Database Architecture
- Instance Definition
- Define SGA
- Define Background Processes
- Datafile Definition
Query Optimizer
- SQL Parsing
- Optimizing Terms
- Optimizing Methods
- Query Plan Generation
- Query Plan Control
Tuning Container Databases and Pluggable Databases
- Pluggable tuning parameters
- Define Container tuning structure
- Using PDB$SEED
- Create a new PDB
- Plug and unplug a PDB
Oracle Tuning features
- Identifying and Using Oracle's Heat Map
- 19c Compression Levels and Types
Evaluating Execution Plans
- Defining SQL execution plans
- Automatic Workload Repository
- Reading execution plans
Oracle Tuning Tools
- Monitoring tools overview
- Enterprise Manager
- Dynamic Performance Views
- Automatic Workload Repository
- Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
- Sql Tuning Advisor
- SQL Access Advisor
- Sql Access Advisor
- DB operation Tuning
- DB operation Active Reporting
Using Automatic Workload Repository
- Defining AWR
- AWR Settings
- Creating AWR Baselines
Metrics, Alerts, and Thresholds
- Defining Metrics
- Setting Alerts
- Setting Corrective Actions
- User Defined Metrics
- Metric Dynamic Views
Join Types
- Nested Loops Join
- Sort Merge join
- Hash Join and Cartesian Join
- Equijoins and Nonequijoins
- Outer Joins
- Semijoins
AWR Using Baselines
- Creating AWR baselines
- Creating AWR Repeating baselines
- Moving Window Baseline
Additional AWR performance tools
- Automatic Maintenance Tasks
- Segment Advisor
- Statistics Gathering
- Automatic Tuning Optimizer
- Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
- Active Session History (ASH)
Optimizer Statistics
- Optimizer Statistics Overview
- Table and Index Statistics
- Statistic Preferences
- Statistics Gathering
- e) Locking Statistics, Export/Import Statistics
- Pending and published statistics
- Optimizer Hints
- Optimizer Paths
- Cost Base Optimization
Monitoring a Service
- Overview of what is an Oracle Service
- Creating an Oracle Service for Single instance and RAC
- Monitoring a Service
- Resource Management and a Service
- Enterprise Manager and a Service
Bind Variables and database parameters
- Bind variable definition
- Cursor_sharing parameter
- Adaptive Cursor Sharing
Oracle's Real Application Testing (RAT)
- Sql Performance Analyzer overview
- Sql Performance Analyzer Options
- Database Parameter changes
- Database version changes
- Creating SQL Tuning Sets
- Database Replay Overview
- Database Replay Configuration
- Database Replay Options
SQL Tuning Advisor
- SQL Tuning Advisor: Overview
- SQL Tuning Advisor Limited Mode
- Sql Tuning Advisor Comprehensive mode
- Sql Tuning Profiles
SQL Access Advisor
- SQL Access Advisor: Overview
- Sql Access Advisor options
- SQL Access Advisor and Sql Tuning Sets
- Sql Access Advisor and AWR
- Results and Implementation
Automatic Sql Tuning
- Automatic Sql Tuning Maintenance Task
- Automatic Tuning Optimization implementation(ATO)
- Automatic Tuning Optimization Results
- Enable/Disable Automatic Tuning Optimization
Sql Plan Management
- Sql plan Management and baseline overview
- Enable sql plan management
- Loading Sql Plan baselines into the SGA
- Adaptive plan management
Shared Pool Tuning
- Shared pool architecture
- Shared pool parameters
- Library Cache
- Dictionary cache
- Large pool considerations and contents
Tuning the database buffer cache
- Database buffer cache overview
- Database buffer cache parameters
- Oracle and Dirty reads and writes
- Automatic Shared Memory Management (ASMM)
- Buffer Cache goals and responsibility
- Buffer Cache pools
Tuning the PGA (Program Global Area)
- PGA Overview
- PGA Database Parameters
- Temporary Segments
- Temporary Tablespace
- Sizing the PGA
Automatic Memory Management (AMM)
- Oracle's Automatic Memory Management Overview
- Database Auto-tuned Parameters
- Database Non Auto-tuned Parameters
- Automatic Memory Management Hints and Sizing suggestions
- AMM versus ASMM
Tuning Segment Space Utilization (ASSM)
- Overview of Automatic Segment Space Management
- Defining the DB_BLOCK_SIZE
- Defining DB_nk_CACHE_SIZE parameter
- The DB_BLOCK_SIZE Parameter
- Overview of table compression, block chaining, and block migration
Automatic Storage Management
- Overview of ASM
- Definition of Grid Infrastructure
- ASM Instance
- ASM Diskgroups
- ASM Diskgroup parameters and templates
- ASMCMD
