With the added complexity of growing data volumes and ever
changing workloads, database performance tuning is now necessary
to maximize resource utilizations and system performance.
However, performance tuning is often easier said than done.
Let’s face it, tuning is difficult for a number of reasons. For
one thing, it requires a significant amount of expertise in order
to understand execution plans, and often update or re-write good
SQL. On top of that, tuning is usually very time consuming. There
will always be a large volume of SQL statements to sort through,
which may lead to uncertainty around which specific statement
needs tuning; and given every statement is different, so too is
the tuning approach.
As data volumes grow and technology becomes increasingly complex,
it is becoming more important to tune databases properly to
deliver end-user experience and to lower infrastructure costs.
Performance tuning can help database …
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