Summary

This chapter saw that Oracle Database 10g has consistently followed the new philosophy of automation and ease of management in the area of performance monitoring and tuning. You were introduced to some of the new views and tools that you can now use to detect, record, and fix performance issues. You also saw some innovative ways of using these views, which can help throw light on areas that you knew you wanted to know about, but had to wait until Oracle Database 10g rolled into your data center!