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12 Automated Physical Database Design 223
12.1 What-if Analysis, Indexes, and Beyond 225
12.2 Automated Design Features from Oracle,
DB2, and SQL Server 229
12.2.1 IBM DB2 Design Advisor 231
12.2.2 Microsoft SQL Server Database
Tuning Advisor 234
12.2.3 Oracle SQL Access Advisor 238
12.3 Data Sampling for Improved Statistics during Analysis 240
12.4 Scalability and Workload Compression 242
12.5 Design Exploration between Test
and Production Systems 247
12.6 Experimental Results from Published Literature 248
12.7 Index Selection 254
12.8 Materialized View Selection 254
12.9 Multidimensional Clustering Selection 256
12.10 Shared-nothing Partitioning 258
12.11 Range Partitioning Design 260
12.12 Summary 262
12.13 Literature Summary 262
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