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Windows 2000 Performance Guide
Help for Administrators and Application Developers
By Mark Friedman and Odysseas Pentakalos - January 2002
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About the Book
It is characteristic of most computer systems that they do not degrade gradually. The painful
reality is that performance is acceptable day after day, until quite suddenly it all falls
apart. When this happens, the administrator needs to be prepared to help the organization get
through the crisis.
Computer applications are growing ever more intelligent and easy to use. One of the by-products
of making applications easier to use is that they usually also require more resources to run.
And wherever productivity is a central factor in the decisions you make, performance
considerations loom large and continue to play an important role in system management.
Are you wondering, for example, if more expensive equipment would give better performance?
The answer is often yes, but not always. This book will show you why it is important to
understand the performance characteristics of the hardware and of the workload, and how they
match up against each other. Windows 2000 Performance Guide takes you through problem solving
techniques like measurement methodology, workload characterization, benchmarking, decomposition
techniques, and analytic queuing models.
This book covers:
- Processor performance
- Application profiling and hardware considerations
- Multiprocessing
- Memory and paging
- File cache
- Disk performance
- Networking
- IIS
The horror stories of failed development projects that did not meet cost and performance
specifications reflect the fact that expectations about what computer technology can do far
exceed the reality. Even as hardware performance continues to improve, managing performance
will not get perceptibly easier. This book will give you the tools and information you need
to meet the challenges of performance management now and in the future.
Many of the popular computer books out there promise easy answers, but this is the only book
for those tricky situations that have no direct precedent. Windows 2000 Performance Guide
will give you the information and the conceptual framework to become your own Windows 2000
performance expert.
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XML Data Management: Native XML
and XML-Enabled Database Systems
Help for Administrators and Application Developers
By Akmal B. Chaudhri, Awais Rashid, Roberto Zicari
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About the Book
In this book, you will find discussions on the newest native XML databases, along with information on working with XML-enabled
relational database systems. In addition, XML Data Management thoroughly examines benchmarks and analysis techniques for performance
of XML databases. This book is best used by students that are knowledgeable in database technology and are familiar with XML.
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