This manual explains how to tune Oracle SQL.
This preface contains the following topics:
This document is intended for database administrators and application developers who perform the following tasks:
Generating and interpreting SQL execution plans
Managing optimizer statistics
Influencing the optimizer through initialization parameters or SQL hints
Controlling cursor sharing for SQL statements
Monitoring SQL execution
Performing application tracing
Managing SQL tuning sets
Using SQL Tuning Advisor or SQL Access Advisor
Managing SQL profiles
Managing SQL baselines
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This manual assumes that you are familiar with the following documents:
To learn how to tune data warehouse environments, see Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide.
Many examples in this book use the sample schemas, which are installed by default when you select the Basic Installation option with an Oracle Database. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information on how these schemas were created and how you can use them.
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