Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris™ Platform
English | | | | epub | 1.23 MB

• Turbocharge your Oracle, DB2, Sybase, or Informix database environment!
  
• Covers every aspect of database and Solaris Operating Environment tuning
  
• Optimize data layout, CPU and memory configuration, and system sizing
  
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, step-by-step
  
• Understand industry-leading benchmarks
  
  

Maximize the performance of any enterprise database running on the Solaris Operating Environment!
Using this book, database professionals can optimize the performance and cost-effectiveness of virtually any database application running on the Solaris platform. Database specialist Allan Packer presents start-to-finish guidance for optimizing all four leading Solaris platform databases: Oracle (including Oracle9i), DB2, Sybase, and Informix XPS. Drawing on years of expertise as an engineer at Sun, Packer brings together best-practice guidelines for every aspect of Sun database server tuning.

• Optimizing data layout, CPU and memory configuration, and system sizing
  
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks: a systematic, drill-down monitoring approach
  
• Understanding database optimizers, database buffer cache, and other key subsystems
  
• Demystifying the industry's leading benchmarks-and recognizing their limitations
  
• Understanding the impact of Java technology on database application design
  
• Contains a quick primer on database architecture and concepts