Oracle Training Learning Objectives
In this 3-half day performance troubleshooting course, participants will learn how
to measure and diagnose performance issues exhibited by a system; as well as
learning triage techniques for isolating the proximal and root cause for a multitude
of performance issues.
This course material is interdisciplinary; the material covers topics in the realm of
system administration, database administration, storage administration and
network administration. It is dominantly targeted to these job titles and their
management.
Participants will learn the optimal approach to diagnosing a performance problem,
and how to arrive at an optimal solution to address the diagnosis.
Course duration
3-Half Day
Oracle Training Course outline
Day 1
Unit I. Defining and quantifying a performance problem
- Articulating the impact on the business, its employees and its customers.
- Correct and incorrect approaches to performance diagnosis.
- How to measure performance.
- Diagnosis: proximal and root cause.
- Why adding hardware doesn’t solve all performance problems.
Unit II. Troubleshooting performance in the Linux/UNIX space
- Measurement tools: sar, vmstat, iostat, top/topas, glance, others.
- How Oracle uses memory.
- Identifying paging/swapping issues.
- Identifying CPU issues.
- Identifying I/O issues.
- Identifying network issues.
Day 2
Unit III. Troubleshooting performance in the Oracle Database space
- Measurement tools: Wait interface, ASH, AWR, Statspack and 3rd party
tools.
- Understanding excessive CPU utilization.
- Understanding high I/O utilization.
- Understanding serialization mechanisms.
- SQL tuning
- Common causes and solutions for Oracle Database performance problems.
Unit IV. Troubleshooting I/O, SAN & NAS issues
- Issues that affect I/O performance.
- How to know if you have a SAN problem
Day 3
Unit V. Performance Triage
Unit VI. Case Studies & Lab in Solving Performance Problems
- Identifying – then fixing – the real problem.
- Case studies.
- Participant interaction on actual trouble scenarios.
- Q&A
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