Oracle DB among Multiple Sites

Helo DBAs
I have six sites running oracle databases, accessing between any of them at any time.
5 sites running Oracle 8i and One site running 11g.
Each site having number of computers, installed with Oracle Client 8i
All the sites connected by 64kbps dedicated leased lines.
The issue is,
the application runs much slower when accessing the remote db.
Is there any tuning methods to be applied to make it faster either in server or client ?
Have any hints, welcome please...
pseswar

user10778262 wrote:
Helo DBAs
I have six sites running oracle databases, accessing between any of them at any time.
5 sites running Oracle 8i and One site running 11g.
Each site having number of computers, installed with Oracle Client 8i
All the sites connected by 64kbps dedicated leased lines.
The issue is,
the application runs much slower when accessing the remote db.
Is there any tuning methods to be applied to make it faster either in server or client ?
Have any hints, welcome please...
Too many to list here. The biggest thing is to minimize the amount of data that has to be pushed over the wire. This means doing as much of the work as possible in the server itself. Make sure you are fully utilizing the features available within oracle to filter and message your data before sending it back to the client. Many programmers just treat the db as a data dump, pulling too much data into the client for processing that could have been done by the data base. An example of such coding would be to create a cursor based on an unqualified SELECT and fetching every row (across the wire, mind you) into the client for filtering and deciding on a row-by-row (slow-by-slow) UPDATE to push back across the wire -- all when a single, well crafted UPDATE could have been pushed across the wire on time.

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