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PublicationsSubject: New Book: Physical Database Design by Lightstone, Teorey and Nadeau
Database Design: The database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more, by Sam S. Lightstone, Toby J. Teorey and Tom Nadeau Order now and receive 15% off PLUS free shipping (use offer code 89322)! To order, visit books.elsevier.com/mk/?isbn=0123693896&srccode=89322 This is an excellent book on physical database design, giving pragmatic models and advice. It has a wealth of information for both the student and for the practitioner -- presenting analytic models and practical tips that are demonstrated with examples using Oracle, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Table of Contents: 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 ISBN: 978-0-12-369389-1 March 2007 Paperback 448 Pages List Price: $49.95 |
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