performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to optimize database structure for system

performance and administration.

Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how 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 the book.

· The first complete treatment on physical database design, written by the authors of the seminal, Database Modeling and

Design: Logical Design, 4th edition.
· Includes an introduction to the major concepts of physical database design as well as detailed examples, using

methodologies and tools most popular for relational databases today: Oracle, DB2 (IBM), and SQL Server (Microsoft).
· Focuses on physical database design for exploiting B+tree indexing, clustered indexes, multidimensional clustering (MDC),

range partitioning, shared nothing partitioning, shared disk data placement, materialized views, bitmap indexes, automated

design tools, and more!