Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning

A guide to using Oracle's parallel query facility for large volume queries focusing on SQL and PL/SQL. Harrison, an Oracle developer and consultant, overviews SQL processing and introduces guidelines to improve applications, including execution plans, work with joins, nulls and ranges search, index building, hierarchical queries, table scans, GROUP BY, updates, and distributed SQL. The accompanying CD-ROM features a set of tools for detecting and correcting SQL bottlenecks. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.