Title: Looking for more
Review: I would characterize this book as 95% verbatim from the already existing Sybase ASE manuals, and 5% of a somewhat meandering, undetailed, and quite vague description of some important topics. Take for instance a 2 page "chapter" on sort buffers. Nothing there helps me to tune that part of the server. It's also full of some of the long known myths to performance, such as the 80% "rule" the optimizer uses to determine when to use an index. The chapter on fragmentation is also somewhat incoherent, and incomplete and includes algorithms for determining fragmentation that are not sound.All in all, I like that there is some movement in the ASE publishing ranks, but I was hoping for much more from this publication.
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