Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform (Solaris Series) by Allan N. Packer and Sun Microsystems Press

Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform (Solaris Series)

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Cover Type: Paperback with 552 pages

Published by: Prentice Hall PTR December 6, 2001

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0130834173

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130834171

Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.4 inches

Weighs: 2 pounds

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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

About The Author

ALLAN PACKER is a Senior Staff Engineer with the Performance and Availability Engineering Group at Sun Microsystems. He has developed workloads for performance and regression testing, led the engineering team working with IBM DB2, acted as technical lead for nine published TPC benchmark results, and developed a training curriculum for the internal training organization focused on configuring, monitoring and tuning database systems. He currently specializes in server systems performance and availability.

Reader Reviews
I bought this book thinking that i would get some good ideas in order to get a little bit more performance from our servers, however once i started reading i could not put it down until 5 hours later. It cuts all the small talk, and it breaks down every topic in an understandable format and teaches you what you really need to know. The section on how to improve DISK performance was great, i implemented many things that i learned from reading this book. Just buy it, you wont regretit. Its a small price to pay for a good piece of mind. Comment | | (Report this)

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