
Physical Database Design
The Database Professional's Guide to Exploiting Indexes, Views, Storage, and More
- 1st Edition - March 21, 2007
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Authors: Sam S. Lightstone, Toby J. Teorey, Tom Nadeau
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 6 9 3 8 9 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 5 2 3 1 - 6
The rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure th… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThe rapidly increasing volume of information contained in relational databases places a strain on databases, performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system performance and administration.
Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how physical structures of databases affect performance, including specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety of DBMSs and configurations. Something as simple as improving the table index design has a profound impact on performance. Every form of relational database, such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Enterprise Resource Management (ERP), Data Mining (DM), or Management Resource Planning (MRP), can be improved using the methods provided in the book.
- The first complete treatment on physical database design, written by the authors of the seminal, Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design, Fourth Edition
- Includes an introduction to the major concepts of physical database design as well as detailed examples, using methodologies and tools most popular for relational databases today: Oracle, DB2 (IBM), and SQL Server (Microsoft)
- Focuses on physical database design for exploiting B+tree indexing, clustered indexes, multidimensional clustering (MDC), range partitioning, shared nothing partitioning, shared disk data placement, materialized views, bitmap indexes, automated design tools, and more!
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 21, 2007
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- No. of pages: 448
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780123693891
- eBook ISBN: 9780080552316
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Sam S. Lightstone
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Toby J. Teorey
Toby J. Teorey is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was general chair of the 1981 ACM SIGMOD Conference and program chair for the 1991 Entity-Relationship Conference. Professor Teorey’s current research focuses on database design and data warehousing, OLAP, advanced database systems, and performance of computer networks. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
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