Method R Corporation is a Cary Millsap company that is committed to genuinely satisfying Oracle software performance. We can help you fix performance problems, and we can help you prevent them.

Performance is response time

Performance is response time—the time it takes your business to get something done. That's what the "R" in "Method R" stands for. The first key to managing response time is measuring response time.

Method R is all about response time.

At Method R Corporation, we make software tools that help your application collect its own response time data automatically. We make tools that help you analyze that information once you've collected it. And we have the right people to help you put everything together the right way.

We can teach you how, or we can do it for you

When you respond properly to the right performance data, your systems become faster, cheaper, and more reliable. We teach courses that convert ordinary professionals into remarkably effective performance analysts. We can teach you how to optimize your systems yourself, or we can do it for you.

Don't just fix problems; prevent them

Method R is not just for fixing problems. It's for preventing them, too. The Holy Grail of performance management is the ability to see the end-user performance experience in whatever detail that you want. We can help you see trends in response times so you can fix problems before your users ever notice them. We can bring you closer to that goal than you might ever have imagined was possible.

Our Products

We offer a variety of products and services to meet your performance needs.

Profiler

Profiler is software developed and maintained by Method R Corporation developers. With minimal training, a Profiler user can—in just minutes—identify the root cause of an Oracle-based application performance problem, propose sensible solutions to it, and predict the end-user response time impact of each proposed solution.

SLAm

SLAm, the SLA manager, automatically records response times of business tasks and allows you to answer questions like, "What percentage of [Book Order] button clicks executed over the past month have returned in 2 seconds or less?" Or, "Given current trends, when will our 99th percentile response time of [Book Order] exceed 2 seconds?"

ILO

ILO, the instrumentation library for Oracle, is an open source project directed by Method R Corporation developers. It contains PL/SQL procedures for measuring tasks using Oracle extended SQL trace. The procedures are installed and compiled in the target Oracle instance and can be called by any language with access to the Oracle database tier.

Oracle Performance Management using Response Time Profiling

Our 3-day lab-based Profiling course transforms normal database administrators, application architects, and application developers into real performance analysts who can find and fix performance problems you may not have even realized that you had. People who take this course routinely fix system performance problems that have plagued their systems for months or even years, improving user productivity and reducing IT spending.

Optimizing Oracle SQL

Our 5-day lab-based SQL optimization course transforms application developers and database administrators into fearless SQL optimizers. Here, students learn to measure performance instead of guessing about it, using an efficient performance testing harness that the students get to take home. The course produces faster students writing faster SQL that will scale efficiently to handle your production workloads.

Custom Consulting

If you need something done that has to do with software performance, just ask. Chances are that we can do it for you.