330HA Architectures & Capacity Planning with WebSphere Remote Server V6
11.2.6 SQL
In the following sections, we list some concepts with high performance issues
and some tools introduced in version 8.
Data types
Understanding your data and defining the proper data type to store the data is
another element that affects performance. Improper data type design in an
application can result in bad performance. For example, it is not a good practice
to use VARCHAR whenever a string needs to be stored. Numbers should be
stored in number fields and not in character fields. In 11.5.2, “SQL tuning” on
page 367, we give advice on how to choose the correct ...
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