DATABASE OPTIMISATION AND PERFORMANCE TUNING

  • What's the difference between performance tuning and database optimization?

    Many thanks.

    Sahoong.

  • I would say that "database optimization" means turning on the right settings and indexes on the database to allow applications to run as fast as possibile, while "Performance tuning" means adjustments to queries and application logics to allow a faster execution of operations.

    I don't think the two things are very different, maybe performance tuning is a process that involves database optimizations.

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    Gianluca

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  • Database optimization is a subset of performance tuning.

  • Steven Cameron (8/4/2008)


    Database optimization is a subset of performance tuning.

    It took me 4 sentences to say the same thing... maybe synthesis is not one of my best qualities!:D

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • Database optimization would include performance tuning, and also things like backup schemes (backup size), data-scalability and normalization, storage planning (disk use), etc.

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