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ORACLE - THE SECRETS OF THE COST BASED OPTIMIZER REVEALED

The core of Oracle's cost based optimizer has long been shrouded in mystery. Database administrators rely entirely on Oracle's decision making component for total system performance.

Some of America's largest companies and government institutions entrust the management of their complex and sophisticated database-structures to Oracle database management systems (DBMS). The core-component of this database management system is called the "cost based optimizer" (CBO). This component self-executes all of the necessary decisions concerning system performance and reliability. While the CBO has since its initial release in 1992 reached near technical maturity, database systems are often plagued by the remaining imperfections. Up until now, there was very little administrators could do to efficiently solve these often devastating performance problems.

GNC Global Network Communications GmbH of Vienna, Austria, has developed a comprehensive software-solution (native PL/SQL package) called "TOM", which is capable of pinpointing these CBO performance problems with precision guidance. TOM eliminates futile guess-work and costly system-analyses as TOM delivers a precise diagnosis within an instance. Thus, allowing database administrators to be immediately alerted to system-performance problems before they become system-critical to the overall database management. No other software-solution on the market today is able to provide the same comprehensive CBO monitoring. TOM will change the way system administrators manage their Oracle databases, as DBA's no longer have to rely entirely on the CBO's ability to form the right decisions. More information about this break-through software-solution can be found at www.tom4oracle.com

GNC Global Network Communication GmbH is one of Austria's largest Oracle solution providers and operates Austria's largest Oracle Authorized University (next to Oracle itself). Founded in 1992 by its current CEO, Mr. Gerhard Krammer, GNC employs some of Europe's top Oracle professionals and counts many leading European companies to its clientele.

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If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule a personal interview with the management of GNC, please contact John Valent at 1-888-878-6672 or via e-mail at john.valent@tom4oracle.com