Tunning Oracle without tunning UNIX is like tunning half cylinders on your car. If you want all the performance you're paying for, you need to do both and Oracle8 and UNIX performance Tunning will show you how.

Oracle Senior Performance Engineer Ahmed Alomari covers virtually every relevant optimization technique in Oracle8, Oracle7, and three leading versions of UNIX: Solaris 2.6. HP-UX 11, and Sequent Dynix/ptx 4.4. He presents in-depth coverage of both OLTP and DSS applications, covering optimization of the UNIX kernel, memory, processors and I/O, and all these major Oracle8 performance enhancement:
- Partitioning
- Star queries
- Parallel DML
- Connection Manager
- Connection Pooling
- Multiple buffer pools
- Parallel query enhancements
- I/O Slaves
- Multiple DBWR processes
- Optimizer enhancements
- PRO*C enhancements
Learn new techniques for optimizing object-relational databases. Use the tips and techniques offered in this book to help eliminate SQL code bottlenecks. Whether you're running Oracle8 or Oracle7 on a UNIX platform, this is the book you need to optimize your environment.

Chapter 1: Inside the UNIX Kernel
Chapter 2: Memory and Processor Tuning
Chapter 3: Cinfiguring and Tunning I/O
Chapter 4: Application Tunning Eliminating the SQL Bottleneck
Chapter 5: Tuning an OLTP System
Chapter 6: Tuning a Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Chapter 7: Media Recovery
Chapter 8: NCA and Objects
Appendix A Installing and Configuring UNIX for Optimal Performance
Appendix B Installing Oracle Optimal Performance

CD-ROM includes SQL and Tuning Scripts for Solaris, HP, and Sequent platforms