Oracle Database : Good reading material from performance perspective

These are some of the resources that I found very helpful in my quest to tune Oracle performance. I will keep updating the list. My focus is on software performance hence on database performance so I wont be focusing on blogs and resources dedicated to Oracle database administration.

Sites

• Ask Tom
• Oaktable

 Oracle performance tuning resources

• Two day performance tuning guide
• Database performance tuning guide
• Best Practices for developing performant applications
• Oracle tuning and wait events
• Two day developer guide

Oracle blogs

• Tanel Poder
• Jonathan Lewis
• Christian Antognini
• Tom Kyte
• Alberto Dell'Era
• Mark Rittman

Books

• Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g Programming Techniques and Solutions by Thomas Kyte
• Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers by Jonathan Lewis
• Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques (Oracle Press) by Richard Niemiec
• Forecasting Oracle Performance by Craig Shallahamer
• Troubleshooting Oracle Performance Christian Antognini

My other posts on Oracle

• What other product can learn from Oracle database performance management