Drive breakthrough database application performance by optimizing middleware and connectivity
Performance and scalability are more critical than ever in today’s enterprise database applications, and traditional database tuning isn’t nearly enough to solve the performance problems you are likely to see in those applications. Nowadays, 75-95% of the time it takes to process a data request is typically spent in the database middleware. Today’s worst performance and scalability problems are generally caused by issues with networking, database drivers, the broader software/hardware environment, and inefficient coding of data requests. In The Data Access Handbook, two of the world’s leading experts on database access systematically address these issues, showing how to achieve remarkable improvements in performance of real-world database applications.
Drawing
on their unsurpassed experience with every leading database system and
database connectivity API, John Goodson and Rob Steward reveal the
powerful ways middleware affects application performance and guide
developers with designing and writing API code that will deliver
superior performance in each leading environment. In addition to
covering essential concepts and techniques that apply across database
systems and APIs, they present many API examples for ODBC, JDBC, and
ADO.NET as well as database system examples for DB2, Microsoft SQL
Server, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase.
Coverage includes
- Clearly understanding how each component of database middleware can impact performance and scalability
- Writing database applications to reduce network traffic, limit disk I/O, optimize application-to-driver interaction, and simplify queries—including examples for ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET
- Managing connections, transactions, and SQL statement execution more efficiently
- Making the most of connection and statement pooling
- Writing good benchmarks to predict your application’s performance
- Systematically resolving performance problems—including eight start-to-finish case-study examples
If you’re a software architect, system designer, or database application developer, The Data Access Handbook will be your most indispensable database application performance resource. It’s the one book that focuses on the areas where you can achieve the greatest improvements—whether you’re designing new database applications or troubleshooting existing ones.
John Goodson is vice president and general manager of the DataDirect division of Progress Software, a leader in
data
connectivity and mainframe integration. For 20 years, he has worked
with Sun, Microsoft, and others to develop database connectivity
standards such as J2EE, JDBC, ODBC, and ADO. He served on the ANSI H2
committee that built the SQL standard and now participates in the JDBC
Expert Group and Java Rowsets standards committees.
Rob Steward, vice president of R&D at the DataDirect
division of Progress Software,
is
responsible for the development, strategy, and oversight of the
company’s data connectivity products. Rob has spent the past 15 years
developing high-performing database driver and data providers,
including ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET.
Both authors have spoken on database application performance at many industry events.
Tags: Databases