CHAPTER 15

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The Final Word

The key to successful tuning with SQLT is to use SQLT regularly and for real-life problems. If you’ve reached the final chapter, you should now consider yourself a card-carrying member of the SQLT supporters club. You’ve learned a lot about what SQLT can do, and along the way you’ve probably learned some things about the cost-based optimizer and the Oracle engine. Let me remind you of some of the features we came across on our journey:

  • The effect of statistics on execution plans
  • The effect of skewness on execution plans
  • How the optimizer transforms SQL during parsing
  • How profiles can help you temporarily freeze an execution ...

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