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Performance Monitoring Tools

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Definition

Performance monitoring tools denote the utilities and programs that give access to database server internals.

Historical Background

Relational database systems have had to prove their performance from the outset [1]. Tools to measure their performance have therefore been present in early versions of most major systems.

Foundations

Performance Monitoring tools are useful in finding out how queries are being serviced, and how the underlying resources are being used. In this entry, the characteristics of the most relevant types of tools are described.

Event Monitor

Event monitors capture the aggregate resources associated to a given event (e.g., query execution, deadlock, session) and report the collected data when the event completes. Event monitors should have low overhead as the collected data is usually accumulated in performance counters that are updated as a side effect of the operations monitored (e.g., CPU usage, IO issued, locks collected during query execution) and...

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  3. Shasha D. and Bonnet P. Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments and Troubleshooting Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, 2002.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Philippe Bonnet

  2. New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Dennis Shasha

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  1. Philippe Bonnet
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Bonnet, P., Shasha, D. (2009). Performance Monitoring Tools. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_124

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