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Application Development and Tuning for Oracle Databases: Hands-On

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Learning Tree International

Topic(s):
Computers & Software > Data Base

Who Should Attend?
Developers and others interested in increasing the performance and efficiency of their Oracle database applications. Knowledge of SQL and PL/SQL at the Course 590, "Oracle9i Intro," or Course 593, "Oracle Database 10g Intro," level is assumed.

Full Seminar Description

You will learn how to

• Design and implement efficient applications while incorporating Oracle9i and 10g features
• Load data into Oracle databases using SQL*Loader or external tables
• Maintain and secure the database with advanced application techniques
• Enhance applications with key Oracle-provided packages
• Control the cost-based optimizer
• Improve query performance using the Oracle-provided toolset
• Tune applications for optimal performance

Course benefits

In this hands-on course, you gain the skills to create powerful and secure Oracle database applications, and tune them for optimal performance.

Who should attend

Hands-on training

• Building the schema
• Loading data into an Oracle database
• Managing constraint-based indexes that are independent of the constraint
• Developing procedures, functions and packages
• Resolving critical PL/SQL problems
• Generating optimizer statistics with DBMS_STATS
• Using performance diagnostic tools
• Optimizing Oracle applications
• Implementing tuning techniques
• Identifying PL/SQL bottlenecks using DBMS_PROFILER

Course content

• The Oracle database environment
• Reviewing basic architecture concepts
• Examining existing databases using the Data Dictionary
• Database design considerations
• Designing for performance
• Managing basic storage structures

PREPARING THE DATABASE

• Maintaining the application schema
• Managing dependencies
• Migrating LONG to LOB datatypes
• Populating the database
• Loading data from other sources using SQL*Loader or external tables
• Writing to external tables using Data Pump
• Importing other Oracle database content

MAINTAINING THE DATABASE

• Applying advanced programming techniques
• Developing modular code using packages
• Managing default, serializable and autonomous transactions
• Resolving potential trigger problems
• Securing the database
• Enforcing security using PL/SQL
• Implementing row-level security applications
• Controlling access with Oracle Label Security
• Locking and read consistency
• Implicit vs. explicit locking
• Avoiding deadlocks

EXPLOITING ORACLE BUILT-IN PACKAGES

• Handling other media types
• Accessing operating system files
• Programming with LOBs
• Automating routine processing
• Scheduling routines with DBMS_JOB or Oracle 10g Scheduler
• Starting jobs based on system or application events
• Enhancing application capabilities
• Controlling the application schema with invoker's rights
• Interprocess communication with Advanced Queuing
• Generating DDL for existing objects

IMPROVING QUERY PERFORMANCE

• Identifying basic tuning techniques
• Developing a tuning methodology
• Planning and managing the tuning process
• Employing tuning tools
• Running EXPLAIN PLAN and autotrace
• SQL Trace and TKPROF output
• Query tuning techniques
• Improving subqueries
• Optimizing join operations
• Partitioning data to improve access to frequently used data
• Storing rows in sorted sequence with sorted hash clusters

DECIPHERING AND CONTROLLING THE OPTIMIZER

• Optimizer concepts
• Fundamentals of access paths
• Gathering object and system statistics with DBMS_STATS
• Managing low-selectivity columns with histograms
• Influencing the Optimizer
• Utilizing hints and optimizer mode
• Specifying first-rows optimization
• Determining the driving table

TUNING THE APPLICATION

• Optimizing performance
• Partitioned, function-based and other indexing options
• Monitoring index usage
• Reducing heavy I/O operations
• PL/SQL tuning techniques
• Generating dynamic SQL
• Binding variables to enable SQL statement reuse

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