Oracle Database 10g New Features: The Oracle Database Advisors

The President gets advisors; lawyers take things under advisement; when you go to college, you are assigned an advisor; so why shouldn't Oracle DBAs have some good advisors to count on? Well, in Oracle Database 10g, we do. This article is the first in a series that will uncover the Oracle Database 10g Advisors in some detail. In this article, we will begin by introducing a principal infrastructure component that the advisors are built around, the Advanced Workload Repository.

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