Oracle performance tuning made easy:

  Step 1: Buy this book...

        Oracle Performance Tuning 101
        By Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha, John A. Kostelac, Kirtikumar Deshpande
        Oracle Press, Paperback, Published June 2001, ISBN 0072131454

  Step 2: Do what it says.

Tim.

p.s. Run a mile from anyone who says that cache hit ratios are a
good way to tune an oracle database. They're way out of date.


On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:50:10AM -0700, Knut Herzog wrote:
> Bharat,
> 
> first two important notices from Oracle tuning guides :
> 
> "If you want to tune your database, don't do it"
> 
> "If you want to increase performance, you have to find the bottleneck"
> 
> Next a few hints where you can start tuning your database :
> 
> use "explain plan"(see Oracle docs) to see wether your sql queries use indexes or do 
>full table scans.
> If they do full table scans on large tables, create indexes for these fields.
> 
> Find out, what queries cause the slowliness and try to tune sql.
> 
> Switch on statistics in your database and analyze results.
> 
> Set optimizer to Cost based.
> 
> There's a lot more about Oracle tuning, but this should be enough to start.
> 
> Knut
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bharat [mailto:bgbadhe@;rediffmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 8:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Oracle /Perl Access Speed Optimization
> 
> 
> 
> Hi ,
> 
>       I am using perl 5.6 with Oracle 8i  on redhat Linux 7.2 
> system,  Iam facing probelm in speed of processing records,
>       I have around 30K records sets ( 1 record set means records 
>  from 30 table)  now in the database
>   (can go upto 80K) .
>    my Existing program is taking 16 hrs to read  these set and 
> create an XML and / Excel file.
>    I am preparing set of queries at the begining and  executing it 
> with parameters for every Record set.
>   which returns array of hash references for all records per 
> record set and then I am writing to either XML/Excel file.
> 
>     Can it be possible to reduce this processing time ?
>    Also , Will stored procedure help in this case and how do I use 
> it (pl mention sample code) ?
> 
> 
> 
> Bharat
> 
> 
> 
> Bharat Badhe

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