What makes seasoned IT professionals run for cover? Answer:
Forecasting Oracle performance! Craig Shallahamer is an Oracle
performance expert with over 18 years of experience. His book is
the first to focus, not on the problem of solving today's problem,
but squarely on the problem of forecasting the future performance
of an Oracle database. Other Oracle performance books are good for
putting out fires; Craig's book helps you avoid all the heat in the
first place.Application over mathematical proofs...
If you're an IT practioner who appreciates application over
mathematical proofs than you'll be pleasantly surprised! Each
chapter is filled with examples to transform the theory,
mathematics, and methods into something you can practically apply.
Craig's goal is to teach you about real-word Oracle performance
forecasting. Period. There is no hidden agenda.A practical and
hands-on training course in a book...
This book is a kind of training course. After reading, studying,
and practicing the material covered in this book, you to be able to
confidently, responsibly, and professionally forecast performance
and system capacity in a wide variety of real-life situations. How
to avoid being on the Wall Street Journal's front page...
If you are more management minded (or want to be) you will be
delighted with the service level management focus. Forecasting
makes good business sense because it maximizes the return on IT
investment and minimizes unplanned down time. To those who think
forecasting is a waste of money. Well...obviously they've never
been on the evening news because their company lost millions of
dollars in revenue and brand destruction because of poorly
performing orunavailable systems.It's about equipping you...
Without a doubt you will be equipped to deal with the realities
of forecasting Oracle performance. But this book gives you more.
Not only will you receive a technical and mathematical perspective,
but also a communication, a presentation, and a management
perspective. This is career building stuff and immensely
satisfying!What you'll learn
This book is a "how to" book filled with examples to transform
theory and mathematics into something you can practically apply.
You will learn how to use a variety of forecasting models, which
will enable you to methodically: Help manage service levels from a
business value perspective, Identify the risk of over utilized
resources, Predict what component of an architecture is at risk,
Predict when a system will be at risk, Develop multiple risk
mitigating strategies to ensure service levels
aremaintainedCharacterize a complex Oracle workload.Who is this
book for?
I.T. professionals who must ensure their production Oracle
systems are meeting service levels, in part, through forecasting
performance, identifying risk, and developing solutions to ensure
systems are available without wasting budget. Readers include
database administrators, I.T. managers, developers, capacity
planners, systems architects, systems integrators.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!