Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques

by Dennis E. Shasha, Philippe Bonnet

Tuning your database for optimal performance means more than following a few short steps in a vendor-specific guide. For maximum improvement, you need a broad and deep knowledge of basic tuning principles, the ability to gather data in a systematic way, and the skill to make your system run faster. This is an art as well as a science, and Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques will help you develop portable skills that will allow you to tune a wide variety of database systems on a multitude of hardware and operating systems. Further, these skills, combined with the scripts provided for validating results, are exactly what you need to evaluate competing database products and to choose the right one.

440 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Tuba]

While it contains too many repeating and simple information, it does work as a book to put things together into a bigger picture when it comes to understanding database tuning.