Physical database design : the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more /
Sam Lightstone.
- Amsterdam : Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2007.
- xx, 427 p. : ill.: 24 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index
1: Introduction to physical database design 2: Basic indexing methods 3: Query optimization and plan selection 4: Selecting indexes 5: Selecting materialized views 6: Shared nothing partitioning 7: Range partitioning 8: Multidimensional clustering 9: The interdependence problem (i.e. design choices) 10: Data sampling in design exploration 11: Access plan selection and physical design 12: Automated physical database design 13: Down to the metal 14: Physical design for Decision Support, Warehousing and OLAP 15: Denormalization 16: Distributed Data Allocation Appendix A: A Simple Performance Model for Database
"Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how the 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 this book."--Jacket.