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Tapio Lahdenmaki (Author), Mike Leach (Author)
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July 7, 2005 0471719994 978-0471719991 1
Improve the performance of relational databases with indexes designed for today's hardware

Over the last few years, hardware and software have advanced beyond all recognition, so it's hardly surprising that relational database performance now receives much less attention. Unfortunately, the reality is that the improved hardware hasn't kept pace with the ever-increasing quantity of data processed today. Although disk packing densities have increased enormously, making storage costs extremely low and sequential read very fast, random reads are still painfully slow. Many of the old design recommendations are therefore no longer valid-the optimal point of indexing has come a long way. Consequently many of the old problems haven't actually gone away-they have simply changed their appearance.

This book provides an easy but effective approach to the design of indexes and tables. Using lots of examples and case studies, the authors describe how the DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server optimizers determine how to access data, and how CPU and response times for the resulting access paths can be quickly estimated. This enables comparisons to be made of the various designs, and helps you choose available choices for the most appropriate design.

This book is intended for anyone who wants to understand the issues of SQL performance or how to design tables and indexes effectively. With this title, readers with many years of experience of relational systems will be able to better grasp the implications that have been brought into play by the introduction of new hardware.

An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available online from the Wiley editorial department.

An Instructor Support FTP site is also available.

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"I recommend this book to all those who have anything to do with database performance. It is a must-read for all database administrations, database designers, performance-tuning specialists, and application programmers…" (Computing Reviews.com, November 20, 2005)

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Improve the performance of relational databases with indexes designed for today's hardware

Over the last few years, hardware and software have advanced beyond all recognition, so it's hardly surprising that relational database performance now receives much less attention. Unfortunately, the reality is that the improved hardware hasn't kept pace with the ever-increasing quantity of data processed today. Although disk packing densities have increased enormously, making storage costs extremely low and sequential read very fast, random reads are still painfully slow. Many of the old design recommendations are therefore no longer valid—the optimal point of indexing has come a long way. Consequently many of the old problems haven't actually gone away—they have simply changed their appearance.

This book provides an easy but effective approach to the design of indexes and tables. Using lots of examples and case studies, the authors describe how the DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server optimizers determine how to access data, and how CPU and response times for the resulting access paths can be quickly estimated. This enables comparisons to be made of the various designs, and helps you choose available choices for the most appropriate design.

This book is intended for anyone who wants to understand the issues of SQL performance or how to design tables and indexes effectively. With this title, readers with many years of experience of relational systems will be able to better grasp the implications that have been brought into play by the introduction of new hardware.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (July 7, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471719994
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471719991
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.8 x 9.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,276,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book on index design, September 20, 2007
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I am an experienced software developer who has designed some fairly sophisticated databases. However, I have not had a lot of training regarding index design and have had DBAs to back me up in case I needed better indexing. Now I don't have a DBA to fall back on and I am having some performance issues on a specific report in one of my databases. How do I resolve the problem? By carefully reading this book.

Index design is not easy, especially when there are many tables involved, joined together in a variety of interesting ways. However, this book helped me understand the core issues of index design. It also helped me understand how to estimate the cost of different indexing strategies. Throughout the book, the authors did a good job of being consistent in their treatment of the topic. I am armed, ready to tackle my report performance issue!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Diving deep into expert knowledge, December 1, 2005
This review is from: Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers (Hardcover)
Gold is heavy. If you are a student (or a professor) with no practical knowledge in real-life large database tuning, this book is quite heavy. It may not be the best for you. But, instead, if you are a hands-on professional, here you can find such knowledge that seldomly becomes published.
If you are a DBA who think you already read everything worth to know about indexing, don't miss this book.

The authors don't try to sell you any simplified tricks.
The book describes a solid methodology, how to diagnose the performance problems and how to do proactive and reactive tuning.
The text is dense, but it makes sense. The examples are clear.

In addition to the actual DBA work, the book builds up an idea of a quality assurance system. In principle, the software developers could be tought a reasonable set of rules-fo-thumb. The goal is to avoid the worst performance pitfalls.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A book of choice... or may be a book of SELECT ?, January 8, 2006
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Dmitry Dvoinikov (Ekaterinburg, Russia) - See all my reviews
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This is an exceptional book on how indexes work in a generic relational database. The authors only pay attention to the principles, not to any particular vendor and this is seldom seen.

The book takes a very pragmatic approach to speeding up SQL SELECTs, it's all about making SELECTs fast. One more thing to notice about this book is that authors talk about tables that contain tens of millions of rows and queries that could take hours (or forever) in the worst case. Compare this to some other SQL performance optimization books that talk about tens of thousands of rows. Sure there is a huge difference in approaches.

Now, why SELECTs could be slow ? Surprise, huge data volume plus limited hardware capacity. How to overcome this ? Surprise, by proper indexing. We all know that.

But ! What exactly a good index is, how to build a good index or improve an existing one, how to estimate the quality of an existing index, how to estimate the query execution time with this or that access path, how the optimizer chooses its ways, which predicates affect it's decisions in which way, how to monitor the database activity and determine what to improve, how indexes wear out with time - this book discusses in a very simple, clear and pragmatical way.

The book gives a clear view of the current state with indexing relational databases. It shows you the principles but does not give any rules of thumb, you still have to understand what you are doing and what are the implications, rather than blindly following the textbook.

And it seriously shifts the way you look at indexes, at least it was so in my case.

This is an invaluable book, but it should be accompanied with a good and very deep tuning guide for your own database of choice. If read alone, it leaves you empty handed, because you wouldn't know where to look in your own database. And if that other guide is not deep enough, it would be a useless companion.

An amazing book for a thinking DBA.
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Relational databases have been around now for over 20 years, and that's precisely how long performance problems have been around too-and yet here is another book on the subject. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiple index access, new index rows, nonleaf pages, local response time, leaf page split, sequential touches, one random touch, database buffer pool, index design process, maximum filter factors, one matching column, reorganization interval, index slice, empty result table, distributed free space, random touches, list prefetch, spike report, two matching columns, worst input, drive queuing, predicate columns, full index scan, optimizer problems, best possible index
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Wiley, Mark Gurry, Quick Upper-Bound Estimate, Maintenance Existing, Materialize One Screen, Maximum Index Screening, Read One Index Row, Type Index
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