Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris™ Platform

Preface

Many books have been written on database tuning—I personally own enough volumes on Oracle tuning to fill a small shelf. Very few, though, approach configuring, tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting from the perspective of the system as a whole, treating the database as one of a number of key components. I have set out to approach database configuration and tuning from this broader context.

To my knowledge, this book is the first attempt at tackling database tuning for multiple databases. Since many aspects of database architecture and tuning are common across the major products, I have separated out generic topics such as database concepts, hardware architectures, the buffer cache and the optimizer. I hope that the opportunity to see ...