Sap R/3 Performance Optimization: The Official Sap Guide [Hardcover]

Thomas Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sap | Publication Date: August 1999

SAP's enterprise-wide resource planning tool, R/3 is used to plan resources (hardware, staff, finances, and so on) in Fortune 500 companies. This text provides a guide to SAP R/3 with instructions and guidance. The accompanying CD contains a test engine for Certified Technical Consultant training.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782125638
• ISBN-13: 978-0782125634
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,937,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource for understanding performance issues in R/3, April 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sap R/3 Performance Optimization: The Official Sap Guide (Hardcover)

I found this book to be well-written, well-organized, and full of useful ideas and explanations on how to recognize performance problems in R/3. The book does not address OS-specific or DB-specific performance problems in detail, but does discuss expensive SQL statements and OS memory issues. There is some discussion of the uniqueness of R/3 memory management on NT. What you will find is a thorough discussion on R/3 memory management, work process distribution, SQL statements, enqueues, table buffering, and much more.

Initially, I was disappointed that there was not a thorough discussion on platform-specific performance issues, but after seeing how well the R/3 aspects are covered, I recommend this book to any R/3 Basis administrator faced with the task of tuning a production system.

The fact that the author is part of SAP's TCC group is obvious. I consider this an advanced text, but written simply enough for even a beginning R/3 adminsitrator to comprehend.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, July 10, 2000

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Mark E. Moses (Ooltewah, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sap R/3 Performance Optimization: The Official Sap Guide (Hardcover)

I have said before that performance tuning SAP is more art than science... an arguable point. Thomas Schneider's depth of knowledge and experience regarding this tricky task comes clear in this book. Although lacking in specificity when it comes to database or operating systems, there is a world of usefull information about SAP buffers, processes, traces, and SQL tuning for the BC Admin tasked with improving performance without simply buying more hardware. This book is every bit as good as SAP's monitoring class. I would suggest a solid understanding of performance measurement and tuning for your RDBMS and OS as a pre-requisite to this volume.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the SAP Class on Performance tuning!, March 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sap R/3 Performance Optimization: The Official Sap Guide (Hardcover)

After taking the SAP class Workload Analysis on performance tuning and being thoroughly baffled and confused, I bought a copy of this book. Much clearer and comprehensive than SAP's technical training I like the sections on memory and sql tuning for R/3. If you're a serious Basis admin or consultant you absolutely must get a copy of this book and learn it!