Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0132052466, Paperback)

Database tuning is the activity of making a database application run more quickly. Tuning is difficult because it requires global knowledge of an information system, from the hardware to the operating system to the query language to the application. This is the first book to deal with tuning object-oriented database systems in a serious way. Aiming to impart a broad knowledge of applications and of computer systems, the book's practical advice helps to decide whether to change the way to construct applications, the parameters of database systems, the configuration of operating systems, the resources that hardware offers, or perhaps even replace entire components to boost a database performance.