Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris™ Platform

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank a number of people who have contributed directly or indirectly to this book. The technical content reflects the efforts and research of a large number of people, and especially my colleagues in Performance and Availability Engineering (PAE).

First, my grateful thanks to Brad Carlile for writing the foreword. He has achieved a great deal on Sun’s behalf in this segment of the market, and I am honored by his participation.

With respect to the technical content, let me begin by acknowledging material contributed by various colleagues at Sun. Much of the content in the Sybase chapters had its origins in a substantial whitepaper by Anand Atre and Lisa Elser. The Database Optimizer chapter borrowed material from a ...