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Automated Physical Database Design and Tuning
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Automated Physical Database Design and Tuning

by Nicolas Bruno
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
253 pages
8h 4m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Automated Physical Database Design and Tuning
Chapter 10
Continuous Physical
Database Design
The techniques discussed in Part II are sophisticated and useful in many com-
mon scenarios. However, they take an offline approach to the physical design
problem and still leave significant decisions to database applications (DBAs).
Specifically, DBAs need to explicitly identify representative workloads and
feed them to tuning tools. DBAs are also expected to guess when a tuning
session is needed and when to deploy recommendations. Naturally, this is not
a one-time process, but instead DBAs continuously monitor, diagnose, and
tune database installations.
These manual tasks become even more problematic in current ...
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