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System Administration Certification exam 918 for IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 prep, Part 4: Performance tuning

Edgar Sanchez (edgarsan@us.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM
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Edgar D. Sanchez is a software engineer from the IBM Latin American Support Call Center in Coral Gables, FL with more than 20 years of experience. He works primarily as a database support engineer with both IBM Informix Dynamic Server and DB2. He also worked as a premium support engineer, regional advanced support, and educator (trainer) for RDBMS customers.
Joseph W. Baric, Jr. (jbaric@us.ibm.com), Advanced Support Engineer, IBM
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Joe Baric has been working in Advanced Support for Informix Products for over ten years. In that time he has coded new features, provided bug fixes, served as a subject matter expert, helped develop course materials, and taught various classes on IDS. He can be reached at jbaric@us.ibm.com.

Summary:  Tune IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) and its different subsystems for optimum performance. After a brief overview, follow along with examples on how to look at the database server and its subsystems. The fourth in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918.

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Date:  19 Jul 2007
Level:  Intermediate
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About this series

Thinking about seeking certification on System Administration for IBM IDS 11 (Exam 918)? If so, you're in the right spot. This series of eight IDS certification preparation tutorials covers all the basics -- the topics you'll need to understand before you read the first exam question. Even if you're not planning to seek certification right away, this set of tutorials is a great place to start learning what's new in IDS 11.

About this tutorial

IDS is a complex and tunable product. This tutorial will help you get optimal performance from your server.

This tutorial is also designed to introduce you to the subsystems within IDS 11 and to show you how to look at them. In this tutorial, you will learn about:

  • Checkpoints
  • Recovery
  • Physical logging
  • Logical logging
  • Asynchronous IO VP
  • Network parameters
  • Disk resources
  • CPU VP resources
  • PDQ and the Memory Grant Manager
  • Scan threads
  • Index creation
  • Statistics maintenance

This tutorial is the fourth in a series of eight tutorials that can help you prepare for the System Administration for IBM IDS V11 Certification (Exam 918). The material in this tutorial primarily covers the objectives in Section 4 of the test, which is entitled "Performance tuning."

IDS 11 installation is covered in part 1 of this tutorial series. If you haven't already done so, consider downloading and installing a copy of IBM IDS 11. Installing IDS will help you understand many of the concepts that are tested on the System Administration for IBM IDS V11 Certification exam.

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Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:

  • Tune your IDS system to improve performance
  • Understand operating system resource considerations

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Prerequisites

IDS 11 installation is covered in part 1 of this tutorial. If you haven't already done so, consider downloading and installing a copy of IBM IDS 11. Installing IDS will help you understand many of the concepts that are tested on the System Administration for IBM IDS V11 Certification exam.

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System requirements

You do not need a copy of IDS to complete this tutorial. However, you will get more out of the tutorial if you download the free trial version of IBM IDS 11 to work along with this tutorial.

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