Oracle 8I and Unix Performance Tuning

Achieve breakthrough Oracle 8/8i performance! Optimize Web-centered enterprise applications Maximize OLTP and OLAP/DSS performance and scalability Tune UNIX, eliminate SQL bottlenecks, and master Oracle 8/8i's latest performance enhancements Maximize performance: Tune Oracle8i and UNIX together! Now, the #1 guide to Oracle tuning on UNIX platforms has been thoroughly updated for Oracle 8i! Oracle Senior Performance Engineer Ahmed Alomari covers every relevant optimization technique for every leading application and approach, including Web-centered development, OLTP, OLAP/DSS, and object-relational database systems. Alomari covers the entire system lifecycle, showing how to achieve breakthrough performance by tuning both Oracle 8i and your underlying UNIX platform. Coverage includes: Choosing Oracle 8/8i and UNIX installation options that maximize performance Optimizing the UNIX kernel, memory, processors and I/O for your application Partitioning, star queries, and parallel DML Connection Manager, connection pooling, and multiple buffer pools Parallel query enhancements, I/O slaves, and multiple DBWR processes Oracle 8/8i optimizer and PRO*C enhancements Expert techniques for eliminating SQL bottlenecks State-of-the-art database performance benchmarking Specific solutions for Solaris, HP-UX, and Sequent No matter how long you've been running Oracle and UNIX, you'll run them fasterand smarterwith Oracle8i & UNIX Performance Tuning!Alomari, Ahmed is the author of 'Oracle 8I and Unix Performance Tuning' with ISBN 9780130187062 and ISBN 0130187062.