Refactoring SQL Applications

What can you do when database performance doesn't meet expectations? Before you turn to expensive hardware upgrades to solve the problem, reach for this book. 'Refactoring SQL Applications' teaches you to recognize and access code that needs Refactoring, and to understand the crucial link between Refactoring and performance. If and when your applications gets bogged down, this book will help you get it back up to speed.

-Determine whether-and where-you can expect performance gains
-Apply quick fixes, such as limiting calls to the database in stored functions and procedures
-Rewrite SQL statements for efficient data access
-Refactor tasks, such as replacing application code by a stored procedure, or replacing iterative, procedural statements with sweeping SQL statements
-Increase parallelism and reorganize processing to reactor flow
-Refactor design using schema extensions, regular views, materialized views, partitioning, and more

'Refactoring SQL Applications' teaches you to recognize and assess code that needs refactoring, and to understand the crucial link between refactoring and performance. If and when your application bogs down, this book will help you get it back up to speed.