| Forecasting Oracle Performance Corrected , Cor Edition Contributor(s): Shallahamer, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590598024 ISBN-13: 9781590598023 Publisher: Apress OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: What makes seasoned IT professionals run for cover? Answer: Forecasting Oracle performance! Craig Shallahamer is an Oracle performance expert with over 18 years of experience. His book is the first to focus, not on the problem of solving today's problem, but squarely on the problem of forecasting the future performance of an Oracle database. Other Oracle performance books are good for putting out fires; Craig's book helps you avoid all the heat in the first place.Application over mathematical proofs... If you're an IT practioner who appreciates application over mathematical proofs than you'll be pleasantly surprised! Each chapter is filled with examples to transform the theory, mathematics, and methods into something you can practically apply. Craig's goal is to teach you about real-word Oracle performance forecasting. Period. There is no hidden agenda.A practical and hands-on training course in a book... This book is a kind of training course. After reading, studying, and practicing the material covered in this book, you to be able to confidently, responsibly, and professionally forecast performance and system capacity in a wide variety of real-life situations. How to avoid being on the Wall Street Journal's front page... If you are more management minded (or want to be) you will be delighted with the service level management focus. Forecasting makes good business sense because it maximizes the return on IT investment and minimizes unplanned down time. To those who think forecasting is a waste of money. Well...obviously they've never been on the evening news because their company lost millions of dollars in revenue and brand destruction because of poorly performing orunavailable systems.It's about equipping you... Without a doubt you will be equipped to deal with the realities of forecasting Oracle performance. But this book gives you more. Not only will you receive a technical and mathematical perspective, but also a communication, a presentation, and a management perspective. This is career building stuff and immensely satisfying!What you'll learn This book is a "how to" book filled with examples to transform theory and mathematics into something you can practically apply. You will learn how to use a variety of forecasting models, which will enable you to methodically: Help manage service levels from a business value perspective, Identify the risk of over utilized resources, Predict what component of an architecture is at risk, Predict when a system will be at risk, Develop multiple risk mitigating strategies to ensure service levels aremaintainedCharacterize a complex Oracle workload.Who is this book for? I.T. professionals who must ensure their production Oracle systems are meeting service levels, in part, through forecasting performance, identifying risk, and developing solutions to ensure systems are available without wasting budget. Readers include database administrators, I.T. managers, developers, capacity planners, systems architects, systems integrators. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Databases - General - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| Dewey: 005.756 |
| LCCN: 2008295586 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.14" W x 9.48" (1.57 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contained in this book are, dare I say, secrets--really. There is a mystery surrounding topics like forecasting, performance management, capacity planning, performance modeling, p- formance prediction, and managing service levels. Add into the mix a dynamic Oracle system, and you have realities that bring professional capacity planners to their knees. In the pages of this book are the secrets I've uncovered and discovered through more than 20 years of working with literally thousands of IT professionals around the world. My goal is to expose these secrets as plainly and completely as I possibly can. One of these secrets is unraveling the relationship between service-level management and forecasting Oracle performance. The difficulty lies in the breadth and depth of each of these topics. They are both massive and fork off in a variety of directions. If you are able to bring the two together, you will be able to architect, build, use, and explain to others how they can better manage the delivery of IT services. I will, as clearly as I can throughout this book, present both these areas of IT and then weave them together. The result will leave you with a confident understanding so you can deal with the realities of IT. |