Part II
Application Design Tuning for Designers and Programmers

Part II provides background information on designing and tuning applications for optimal performance. The chapters in Part II are:

• Chapter 3, "Application and System Performance Characteristics"

• Chapter 4, "Tuning Database Operations"

• Chapter 5, "Registering Applications"

• Chapter 6, "Data Access Methods"

• Chapter 7, "Optimizer Modes, Plan Stability, and Hints"

• Chapter 8, "Tuning Distributed Queries"

• Chapter 9, "Transaction Modes"

• Chapter 10, "Managing SQL and Shared PL/SQL Areas"

• Chapter 11, "Optimizing Data Warehouse Applications"

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