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Chapter 3: Managing Processes and Users

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Diagnosing and resolving availability and performance issues is a key part of every DBA’s job. When troubleshooting problems, DBAs often start by identifying the processes that are currently running and identifying details about users logged on to the server. It is critical to know how to extract process and user activity from the OS.

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© 2015 Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim, and Bernard Lopuz

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Kuhn, D., Kim, C., Lopuz, B. (2015). Chapter 3: Managing Processes and Users. In: Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1254-7_3

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