Audience for This Book

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Responding to an Oracle performance problem can be a complicated task involving people from several departments within your business (users, system managers, database managers, network managers, application developers, and so on) and possibly even from several of your hardware and software vendors as well. I have written this book for the person called the performance analyst . The performance analyst is one person, or perhaps a small team of people, who are responsible for the following activities in a performance improvement project:

Targeting

The performance analyst is responsible for properly designing a performance improvement project to fix the right problem.

Analysis

The performance analyst is responsible for ensuring that a performance improvement project will achieve the desired target with the least economic investment.

Implementation

The performance analyst is responsible for ensuring that the performance improvement project results in real progress in the actual live system.

Because this is a book about a new performance improvement method that is more radical than you're probably accustomed to, I have included text to help motivate the necessary changes in fundamental approach among project sponsors and project managers. Part I of this book is especially important reading for sponsors and managers who don't understand the need for change in Oracle performance improvement methods .

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