Preface

This preface contains the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This guide is intended for Oracle database administrators (DBAs) who want to tune and optimize the performance of Oracle Database. Before using this document, you should be familiar with Oracle Database administration.

In particular, this guide is targeted toward the following groups of users:

• Oracle DBAs who want to acquire database performance tuning skills

• DBAs who are new to Oracle Database

See Also:

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide for more information about database administration

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

For more information about the topics covered in this document, see the following documents:

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Tuning Guide

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.