Using Oracle Services

To manage workloads or a group of applications, you can define services that you assign to a particular application, or to a subset of an application's operations, or you can group work by type under services.

To understand how you can manage workloads by defining services or groups, consider this example: To connect to the database, you configure one service for online users, while batch processing uses another service, and reporting uses yet another service. You can thus track workloads by services.

Oracle recommends that all users who share a service have the same service level requirements. You can define specific characteristics for services, and each service can represent a separate unit of work. There are many options that you can take advantage of when using services. Although you do not have to implement these options, using them can help you to optimize application performance.