Expert Oracle RAC Performance Diagnostics and Tuning

Vallath has more than 26 years of IT experience including over 20 years using Oracle products. Vallath is an Oracle ACE Director and president of All India Oracle Users Group (www.aioug.org). He has worked on a variety of database platforms for small to very large implementations, designing databases for high volume, machine critical, real time OLTP systems. His expertise is with Oracle RAC. Vallath released his second book titled Oracle 10g RAC, Grid, Services and Clustering in March 2006 and has co-authored his third book titled Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) November 2007, from Oracle Press. Vallath currently provides independent consulting services in the areas of capacity planning, high availability solutions and performance tuning of Oracle environments through Summersky Enterprises (www.summersky.biz) with operations in USA and India. He has successfully completed over 100 successful small, medium and terabyte sized RAC implementations for reputed corporate firms. His recent experiences are with archiving historical data for datamarts on Exadata servers. Vallath is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including the Oracle Open World, AIOUG and others on Oracle RAC and Oracle RDBMS Performance and Tuning related topics. Vallath blogs at www.muralivallath.com.

• 1. Methodology 2. Capacity Planning and Architecture 3. Testing for Availability 4. Testing for Scalability 5. Real Application Testing 6. Tools and Utilities 7. SQL Tuning 8. Parallel Query Tuning 9. Tuning the Database 10. Tuning Recovery 11. Tuning Oracle Net 12. Tuning Storage Subsystem 13. Tuning Global Cache 14. Tuning the Cluster Interconnect 15. Optimization of Distributed Workload 16. Tuning the Oracle Clusterware 17. Enqueues, Waits and Latches 18. Problem Diagnostics A. The SQL Scripts Used in This Book Bibliography