Oracle8i

Designing and Tuning for Performance

Release 2 (8.1.6)

December 1999

Part No. A76992-01

Designing and Tuning for Performance, Release 2 (8.1.6)

Part No. A76992-01

Primary Author: Michele Cyran.

Contributing Authors: Mark Bauer, Ruth Baylis, Lance Ashdown, Joyce Fee, Jackie Gosselin, Shelley Higgins, Diana Lorentz, Rita Moran, Randy Urbano, Nitin Vengurlekar, and Sandy Venning.

Contributors: T. Akiba, Ahmed Alomari, D. Austin, A. Brumm, D. Colello, B. Dageville, D. Daniels, Dinesh Das, S. DeMel, Harv Heneman, S. Gossett, T. Guay, G. Hallmark, M. Hartstein, S. Heisey, A. Ho, Andrew Holdsworth, Hakan Jakobssen, S. Jang, R. Jenkins, J. Klokkers, A. Kolk, Tirthankar Lahiri, J. Loaiza, G. Lumpkin, R. Manalac, S. Maring, Alan Maxwell, K. Morse, Ari Mozes, K. Ono, Cetin Ozbutun, Peter Povinec, M. Rhodes, R. Roccaforte, H. Sankar, R. Shah, Ekrem Soylemez, Juan Tellez, Bob Thome, L. To, A. Tsukerman, Steve Vivian, S. Wadhwa, Steve Wertheimer, Graham Wood, M. Zait, Zia Ziauddin.

Graphic Designer: Valarie Moore

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