This book is a quick-reference guide for tuning Oracle SQL. This is not a comprehensive Oracle tuning book. The purpose of this book is to give you some light reading material on my "real world" tuning experiences and those of my company, Mark Gurry & Associates. We tune many large Oracle sites. Many of those sites, such as banks, large financial institutions, stock exchanges, and electricity markets, are incredibly sensitive to poor performance. With more and more emphasis being placed on 24/7 operation, the pressure to make SQL perform in production becomes even more critical. When a new SQL statement.
