Oracle Internals: An Introduction

This concise book contains detailed information about Oracle internals-information that's not readily available to Oracle customers. Based on Oracle8i release 8.1, the book describes many of the secrets of Oracle's internal services: data structures, algorithms, and undocumented Oracle system statistics. Main topics include waits, latches, locks (including instance locks, which are used in parallel server environments), and memory use and management. The author's toolkit of scripts accesses the Oracle X$ tables directly to return statistics you'll find extremely he1pful in tuning and analysis. Oracle8i Internal Services is aimed especially at administrators and developers who need detailed internal information to do advanced performance tuning. The book will expand your repertoire of tuning solutions and troubleshooting techniques by explaining how you can use Oracle's hidden parameters and undocumented system statistics to best advantage. "The Oracle wait events are probably the most important piece of tuning information for any Oracle DBA. In this book Steve Adams gives a good introduction to the most important wait events and also offers information on bow to tune them." Anjo Kolk, Oracle Corporation "Steve Adams knows more about Oracle internals than anyone I know. This book is a very significant contribution to the body of Oracle knowledge and an invaluable aid to advanced performance tuning and configuration. I highly recommend it. " Guy Harrison, Project Manager, Database Monitoring Tools, Quest Software "Steve bas taken Oracle internals information to the next level. The book is a 'must read' for every DBA and senior technical person who's working on mission-critical Oracle databases. It is a welcome addition to my bookshelf. " Mark Gurry, Author of Oracle Performance Tuning