Chapter 14: Low-Level Physical Tuning

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Overview

This chapter will cover the second layer of object physical tuning, dealing with explicit block-and extent-level tuning within objects. I like to call block-and extent-level tuning low-level physical tuning.

There are a few things we need to reiterate and freshly discover before going too deeply into low-level Oracle Database tuning.

Note 

 Oracle Database 10 Grid   The current trend for Oracle Database is towards automation with respect to physical storage structure. Some of the subject matter in this chapter is redundant in Oracle Database 10g and more may become so in future versions.

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