Chapter 6. Database Workloads

Understanding the workload or workloads that run on your server is crucial to configuring it effectively and achieving optimal performance. A number of different workload types are well recognized; this chapter broadly defines the major workloads.

Many end-user environments have a mixture of workload types, sometimes coexisting on a single system. Also, some key activities, such as data extraction, transformation, and load, are not directly accounted for by any of the following characterizations.

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