Most DBAs and developers do a lot of guessing in their performance work. This book demonstrates how to remove the guessing, which helps you develop truth-based confidence. That's immensely valuable!

Contained in this book are the methods and techniques to give you the confidence to do the following:

If you have a deep Oracle internals background, applying the techniques covered in the first few of chapters will dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of your analysis, and will also provide you with a way to naturally explain to others the problem and the possible solutions. As most senior Oracle professionals know, given enough time and proper training, we can learn the technical internals, but communicating complex technical topics in a confident and convincing manner is much more difficult. This book will help every Oracle performance firefighter to better communicate complex technological subjects.