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Title: A Handy Reference
Review: Tom and Mark have done an excellent job at covering new V8 features and Solaris internals. This book combines DB2 and Solaris implementation details and is a must for Solaris SAs and DB2 DBAs supporting DB2 on Solaris. They have aptly pointed out the unique DB2 on Solaris differences that you need to know to get the best performance out of DB2 on Solaris (Kernel asynchronous I/O, double buffering, disk architecture, concurrent I/O, performance of raw devices,VCS, Quick I/O, Cached Quick I/O, address space diagrams and details on memory management by the MMU). By adding the additional details on Solaris in Chapters 11 - 15, the authors have made the book a handy reference.
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