*Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform*

by Allan N. Packer, (c) Sun Microsystems Press, 2002

Table of Contents

Part One: Databases on Sun Servers

Chapter 1 - Sun's Relationship with Database Vendors
Chapter 2 - The Role of Database Engineering at Sun
Chapter 3 - Solaris Optimizations for Databases
Chapter 4 - Hardware Architecture and Databases

Part Two: Database Architecture

Chapter 5 - Introduction to Database Architecture
Chapter 6 - Database Workloads
Chapter 7 - The Role of the Buffer Cache
Chapter 8 - The Role of the Database Optimizer
Chapter 9 - Oracle Architecture
Chapter 10 - Sybase Architecture
Chapter 11 - Informix XPS Architecture
Chapter 12 - DB2 for Solaris Architecture

Part Three: Sizing and Configuring Sun DBMS Servers

Chapter 13 - Sizing Systems for Databases
Chapter 14 - System Configuration
Chapter 15 - Configuring CPU
Chapter 16 - Configuring the Network
Chapter 17 - Data Layout

Part Four: Performance Monitoring and Tuning

Chapter 18 - Troubleshooting Methods
Chapter 19 - Major Contributors to Poor Performance
Chapter 20 - System Performance Monitoring Tools
Chapter 21 - Drill Down Monitoring
Chapter 22 - Monitoring and Tuning Oracle
Chapter 23 - Monitoring and Tuning Sybase
Chapter 24 - Monitoring and Tuning Informix XPS
Chapter 25 - Monitoring and Tuning DB2 for Solaris
Chapter 26 - Metrics: How to Measure and What to Report

Part Five: Other Topics

Chapter 27 - Benchmarking
Chapter 28 - Java, Middleware and Databases

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