Sybase Administrators Performance and Tuning for ASE 12 5 1 
This course teaches database administrators
how to tune an
Adaptive Server for optimal performance.
It explores Adaptive Server architecture in depth,
and includes sections on designing databases for performance,
managing Adaptive Server system resources (
CPUs, disks, I/O),
choosing appropriate locking schemes, optimizer statistics,
SMP features, relevant data structures, and parallel processing.
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