Oracle Performance Tuning. 2nd edition

Performance tuning is crucial in any modem relational database management system. Too many organizations respond to Oracle performance problems by throwing money at these problems-by buying larger and more expensive computers or by hiring expert consultants. But there's a lot you can do on your own to increase dramatically the performance of your existing system. Whatever version of Oracle you're running-from Version 6 to Oracle8, proper tuning can save your organization a huge amount of money in additional equipment, extra memory, and hardware upgrades.
The first edition of Oracle Performance Tuning has become a classic for programmers, managers, database administrators, system administrators, and anyone who cares about improving the performance of an Oracle system. This second edition is a complete rewrite ; it updates all the original information, incorporating new advice about disk striping and mirroring, RAID, client-server, distributed databases, MPPs, SMPs, and other architectures.
It also includes new chapters on parallel server, parallel query, backup and recovery, the Oracle Performance Pack, and more.