June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
17h 21m
English
A poorly performing system can degrade the performance of all databases and applications deployed on that system. No amount of database, application, or SQL tuning can improve performance when a poorly implemented system is causing performance problems. Applications access databases and both are implemented on an overall system environment, as shown in Figure 10-1. Therefore, a system problem can cause all databases and applications to perform poorly, just like a database problem can cause all applications that access that database to perform poorly.

Figure 10-1. The tuning boxes
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