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Welcome!  Here you'll find my various series of articles on "improving Oracle performance".  In each article you'll find a short summary of a particular facet of Oracle performance and how to identify and resolve them.

I've also included copies of my past tech articles and presentations for your reference. 

 

Resolving Oracle Contention Series 
Learn to identify and resolve types of Oracle contention
 
Oracle Tuning Series 
Learn how to find SQL that warrants tuning and work out how to make those SQLs work more efficiently
 
inside Spotlight 
A new series of articles focusing on Spotlight on Oracle
 
Articles 
View my tech articles.
 

Presentations 
Download my presentation handouts.
 

My Blog 
Occasional postings on database-related topics
 

My personal home page 
Other articles and resources. 
 

My Quest Bio

Guy Harrison is a Director of Research and Development at Quest Software, and has over 20 years experience in application and database administration, performance tuning and software development. Guy is the author of Oracle Performance Survival Guide (Prentice Hall, 2009) and  MySQL Stored Procedure Programming (O’Reilly with Steven Feuerstein) as well as other books, articles and presentations on database technology.  Guy  is the architect of Quest's Spotlight® family of diagnostic products and has contributed to the development of other Quest products, such as Toad®.  Guy can be found on the internet at www.guyharrison.net, on email at  guy.harrison@quest.com and is @guyharrison on twitter.
  

 

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