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information in the and views. Capture the information
once a week.
What are its advantages? What are its disadvantages?
Use the information in the view. Capture the information once a
week.
table, create graphs of the following workload
metrics: logical reads, physical reads, logical reads per transaction, and physical
reads per transaction.
an automated process to manage their size.
Further Reading
Oracle Corporation. Oracle Database 11g Backup and Recovery User’s Guide. Oracle Corporation,
2007. Freely searchable or downloadable free of charge at
or .
Oracle Corporation. Oracle Database 11g Performance Guide. Oracle Corporation, 2007.
Freely searchable or downloadable free of charge at or
. Chapter 13 explains the
need for statistics and how to manage them using the package.
Oracle Corporation. Oracle Database 11g Security Guide. Oracle Corporation, 2007. Freely
searchable or downloadable free of charge at or
. Includes discussions of auditing
and user management.
Alapati, Sam. Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration. Apress, 2008. A useful reference
for the intermediate and experienced database administrator.
Loaiza, Juan and Himatsingka, Bhaskar. How to stop defragmenting and start living: the
definitive word on fragmentation. A milestone in the evolution of Oracle database administration
practices. The Simple Algorithm for Fragmentation Elimination (SAFE)
described in this paper was incorporated into Oracle 8i. Available on the Oracle Technology
Network (OTN) web site .