"... monitoring and performance diagnostics tools. Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F.
Korth, and S. Sudarshan. Database Systems Concepts. McGraw-Hill Higher
Education, 2001. This well-written popular book provides a functional description
of query plans, as do many of the better introductory database textbooks. Edward
Whalen, Marcilian Garcia, Steve Adrien DeLuca, and Dean Thompson. Microsoft
SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical ..."
Database Tuning(1st Edition) Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Dennis Elliott Shasha, PhilippeBonnet Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2002 by Morgan Kaufmann ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-753-8, ISBN: 1-55860-753-6
"Tuning your database for optimal performance means more than following a few short steps in a vendor-specific guide. For maximum improvement, you need a broad and deep knowledge of basic tuning principles, the ability to gather data in a systematic way, and the skill to make your system run faster. This is an art as well as a science, and Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques will help you develop po ..."
Bretagne by Christophe Amiot, PhilippeBonnet Hardcover, 540 Pages, Published 2002 by Editions Du Patrimoine ISBN-13: 978-2-85822-728-0, ISBN: 2-85822-728-4