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Performance

 In an ideal world, users would never need to be concerned about performance. The system would tune itself. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world. An untuned database can be thousands of times slower than a tuned one, so it pays to take steps to improve performance. This chapter shows you how to get the optimal performance from your database.


 


Bruce Momjian
2001-05-09