Posted on 6/29/2012
 | Special Guest: Andrew Endicott, DBA Manager, Cardinal HealthDB2 LUW Performance Tuning: Reducing CPU and I/O, Achieving Performance Gains, while lowering IT Infrastructure CostsIn our Season #3 finale, Scott Hayes was joined by Andrew Endicott, DBA Manager at Cardinal Health, for a lively discussion about DB2 LUW Performance Tuning. Andrew described how he has helped his organization avoid costly hardware and license upgrades while improving quality of service for his user community. Remarkably, all of this has been achieved while doubling the size of his SAP footprint and without adding any head count. How did Andrew achieve all this? Watch and learn... |
Show Host Scott Hayes CommentaryAndrew and I covered a lot of ground during this show. Index structures, access paths, leaf scans, SQL workload analysis, tuning SAP, reducing CPUs, reducing and eliminating I/O, sample SQL analysis commands, solid state disk, table I/O analysis, when to REORG a table (without using REORGCHK), Index Design, Indexes to Drop, Clustering Indexes, Response Time and Time Spent analysis, SQL commands to find table and index scans, and more. Several case studies of the methods and techniques where shown. In just 75 minutes, this show is a complete primer on DB2 LUW tuning best practices! Join The DB2Night Show™ LinkedIn GroupThe DB2Night Show™ has a LinkedIn Group. The "closed " group is open to any LinkedIn member. Join to receive LinkedIn group updates includingfuture shows and replay information, and, if you like, start some discussions about the show! Join The DB2Night Show LinkedIn Group! The Corporate Sponsor of The DB2Night Show:
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