December 7th at 14:25, Track 1

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Database Tuning for Packaged Applications

Packaged Applications such as E-Business Suite and Demantra may require significant hardware and performance tuning resources. Large investments in hardware will benefit from periodic tuning of the application and underlying database. Tuning the database for these packaged applications can utilize similar techniques, however the hardware resources required may be vastly different. We are faced with the constraint that we can’t tune the sql in these packaged applications, but we can make the database run faster and thereby, “fix” the offending sql. In addition to the generally used techniques of reorg-ing tables or gathering better statistics, there are six more tuning techniques that can be used to help improve the performance of your packaged application.

This is a practical presentation for those packaged application users that need better performance but without the purist’s focus on tuning sql.