Guide for Developing High-Performance Database Applications

The Oracle database has been engineered to provide very high performance and scale to thousands of users. However, a database application should be properly designed to take advantage of the database server capabilities. This white paper discusses fundamental rules and best practices for developing high-performance database applications Each database feature has its pros and cons and only thorough understanding of how features work allows developers to make right choices. The purpose of this paper is to help application developers focus on the most important performance optimization techniques available with the Oracle database server. This guide is in no way complete and not intended to be used without consulting Oracle documentation and experienced application developers.