Preface
This preface contains these topics:
Audience
This document is intended for database administrators (DBAs) who are responsible for the operation, maintenance, and performance of Oracle Database. This guide describes how to use Oracle Database performance tools to optimize database performance. This guide also describes performance best practices for creating an initial database and includes performance-related reference information.
See Also:
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Oracle Database SQL Tuning Guide for information about how to optimize and tune SQL performance
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Oracle Database 2 Day + Performance Tuning Guide to learn how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (Cloud Control) to tune database performance
Documentation Accessibility
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Access to Oracle Support
Oracle customer access to and use of Oracle support services will be pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in their Oracle order for the applicable services.
Related Documents
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with the following documents:
To learn how to tune data warehouse environments, see Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide.
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