October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
23h 23m
English
When non-DBAs think about what it is that a DBA does, performance monitoring and tuning are quite frequently the first tasks that come to mind. This should not be surprising. Almost anyone who has come in contact with a computer has experienced some type of performance problem. Moreover, relational database systems have a notorious reputation (mostly undeserved) for poor performance.
This chapter, as well as the following three, will discuss performance monitoring, tuning, and management within the context of database administration. Chapter 9 defines performance, discusses the difference between performance monitoring and performance management, looks at managing service levels, and defines three specific subsets of ...