UC Berkeley DATABASE TUNING short course

U.C. Berkeley Continuing Education in Engineering Announces A Short Course on ... DATABASE TUNING (July 11-12, 1994) COURSE DESCRIPTION The course is based on Shasha's book "Database Tuning: A Principled Approach" (Prentice-Hall, 1992). Dr. Shasha presents tuning ideas that can port from one system to another and from one release to another. The book and course were developed with valuable input from, performance tuning consultants from Oracle, Sybase, IBM, Ingres, and other firms. The course concludes with a diagnosis strategy gleaned from Shasha's own experiences and those of corporate tuning consultants. The strategy has both its global and query-specific components. It also discusses system-specific tools and a third-party tools. The course is illustrated with scenarios abstracted from real-world situations highlighting the tuning options explored. A copy of the course text and notes are provided to participants of the seminar. INSTRUCTOR Dennis Shasha, is an associate professor at New York University's Courant Institute where he does research on transaction processing, real-time algorithms, and pattern matching. He also consults at Novell Inc., where he has worked on the TUXEDO database system and kernel design. He received his BS from Yale and his doctorate from Harvard in applied mathematics. For more information contact: (please send your postal address and/or fax #) Harvey Stern U.C. Berkeley Extension/Southbay 800 El Camino Real Ste. 150 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: (415) 323-8141 Fax: (415) 323-1438