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Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures, Second Edition
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Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures, Second Edition

by Craig S. Mullins
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
23h 23m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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10. System Performance

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 as a database problem can cause all applications that access that database to perform poorly.

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Figure 10.1. The tuning boxes

A system problem can cause all databases and ...

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