Selected Topics for Database Administrators

This personal notepad of a DBA shared with others contains some useful UNIX commands for DBA's who don't use those commands on a daily base. Professional UNIX-administrator will not find here anything what they not know.

Performance

Cost / Benefit / Risk Analysis of creating additional Indexes. Index Design is not simple! - This article lists many facts which need to be considered.

Why are inserts into a day-partitioned table faster than inserts into a not partitioned table?.
The question might be surprising, the answer is simple

UNIX

Simple UNIX commands for DBA's