Resource and Performance Monitoring Tools
As mentioned earlier, the majority of database performance problems are the result of a poor database design or poorly coded database queries. Other reasons for performance problems are data access contention (“hot spots”), inadequate hardware resources, or a poorly configured database server. This section describes a variety of tools and techniques for locating database performance problems.
Application Resource Measurement
Because measuring the performance of an application is difficult, Hewlett-Packard and Tivoli Systems jointly developed an open set of APIs for measuring application response times. This standard set of APIs is called Application Resource Measurement (ARM). If an application has been ...
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