Chapter 1

Tuning the Database

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Examining the work to be done

Bullet Contemplating physical design considerations

Bullet Choosing and clustering indexes

Bullet Co-clustering two relations

Bullet Indexing on multiple attributes

Bullet Tuning indexes, queries, and transactions

Bullet Query tuning in a high-concurrency environment

Bullet Keeping user interactions separate from transactions

Bullet Holding down traffic between application and server

Bullet Creating a precompiled list of frequently used queries

The word tuning is generally ...

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