Purpose
This tutorial shows you how to use the SQL Tuning Advisor feature in Oracle SQL Developer 3.2.
Time to Complete
Approximately 40 minutes
Introduction
The SQL Tuning Advisor analyzes high-volume SQL statements and offers tuning recommendations. It takes one or more SQL statements as an input and invokes the Automatic Tuning Optimizer to perform SQL tuning on the statements. It can run against any given SQL statement. The SQL Tuning Advisor provides advice in the form of precise SQL actions for tuning the SQL statements along with their expected performance benefits. The recommendation or advice provided relates to the collection of statistics on objects, creation of new indexes, restructuring of the SQL statement, or creation of a SQL profile. You can choose to accept the recommendation to complete the tuning of the SQL statements.
Oracle Database can automatically tune SQL statements by identifying problematic SQL statements and implementing tuning recommendations using the SQL Tuning Advisor. You can also run the SQL Tuning Advisor selectively on a single or a set of SQL statements that have been identified as problematic.
In this tutorial, you learn how to run and review the recommendations of the SQL Tuning Advisor.
Note: Tuning Advisor is part of the Tuning Pack, one of the Oracle management packs and is available for purchase with Enterprise Edition. For more information see The Oracle Technology Network or theonline documentation.
Hardware and Software Requirements
The following is a list of hardware and software requirements: