
Chapter 7
Practical Aspects in Physical
Database Design
This chapter complements the various approaches for the physical design prob-
lem that we introduced earlier by discussing practical aspects that need to be
addressed in a real-world tuning tool. Figure 7.1 gives an overview of the
various issues that we discuss in this chapter. Specifically, we cover (1) how
to gather representative workloads, (2) how to clean and compress workloads
for scalable tuning, (3) variations on tuning models, (4) variations to limit
tuning time, (5) practical aspects of tuning production servers, (6) genera-
tion of reports, and (7) scheduling scripts for deploying the ...