SQL Performance Tuning

SQL Performance Tuning is a handbook of practical solutions for busy database professionals charged with managing an organization's critically important data. Covering today's most popular and widely installed database environments, this book is an indispensable resource for managing and tuning SQL across multiple platforms.

Packed with tips, techniques, and best practices, this hands-on guide covers SQL commands and queries over a wide range of conditions and environments. Every facet of the SQL environment is covered, from concurrency control to optimization—and every issue in between. The book includes an overview of each of the most widely used database management systems (DBMS) and provides tuning tips for common day-to-day situations.

Topics covered include:

• General and specific tuning
• General sort considerations and options
• Joins and subqueries
• Columns and tables
• Indexes, including B-trees and bitmaps
• Constraints and stored procedures
• ODBC and JDBC
• Data changes and concurrency control (locking)
• Clients, servers, and middleware

Whether you are a programmer, consultant, or user, you will find SQL Performance Tuning an indispensable guide to optimizing SQL performance across today's popular database environments.

Throughout SQL Performance Tuning, ideas and techniques are tested on a variety of popular SQL environments, including IBM DB2, Informix, Ingres, InterBase, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase ASE. The book's practical examples are written in ANSI/ISO Standard SQL: 1999.

Offers tips for improving the performance of any SQL database, no matter what the platform. Written for experienced database administrators familiar with SQL, the book identifies the similarities and differences of eight DBMSs, including Oracle 9i, IBM DB2 7.2, and Microsoft SQL server 2000. It provides strategies for refining sorts, subqueries, columns, tables, indexes, constraints, and locks. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Peter Gulutzan is a principal of Ocelot Computer Services Inc. in Alberta, Canada. Peter is a technical writer and computer programmer who has worked with SQL since 1986. With Trudy Pelzer, he has written three books, Optimizing SQL (CMP Books, 1994), Optimizing C with Assembly Code (CMP Books, 1995), and SQL-99 Complete, Really (CMP Books, 1999).

Trudy Pelzer is a principal of Ocelot Computer Services Inc. in Alberta, Canada. Trudy is a technical writer and computer programmer who has worked with SQL since 1986. With Peter Gulutzan, she has written three books, Optimizing SQL (CMP Books, 1994), Optimizing C with Assembly Code (CMP Books, 1995), and SQL-99 Complete, Really (CMP Books, 1999).