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Oracle performance tuning best practices that any administrator, database designer and performance tester must focus on.

In this paper, we will discuss the importance of selecting the right set of application scenarios for your load test and will provide you the criteria for selection of best candidates for load testing along with the approaches to help you reach out the scenario selection decision.

This white paper gives in-depth information regarding the performance tuning approach to be adopted in implementing a highly available and scalable Websphere Application Server environment.

Performance test results largely depend upon the test environment and having the test environment as an exact replica of the production system is the fundamental point in performance testing. Quite often, performance testing is conducted on the production system to overcome the test environment issues. In this article, we will discuss what production system is, reasons to conduct performance testing on production system, myths regarding testing on production system, risks associated with testing on production system and best practices of effectively testing an application in the production environment.

MySQL Cluster is a real time, scalable and transactional database. This white paper explores most of the optimization methods for enhancing the performance of MySQL Cluster. With these methods, you can handle a variety of workload requirements.

Executing the performance test on production similar system and availability of all the required resources to successfully run the test is very essential. Creating the exact replica of the production system is undoubtedly the most important part of the whole testing activity as even the minor differences between the test environment and production system can completely invalidate the test results.

Tuning WebLogic Server and the relevant applications is an iterative and complex procedure. This white paper throws light on the major performance tuning considerations for WebLogic Server. As the WebLogic Server management system is usually based on Java Enterprise Edition and other standards, it could be easily integrated with systems that are generally utilized to manage other software and hardware entities.

Different performance testing metrics are used to measure the output of the performance activity. These performance metrics provides the quantitative method to evaluate the test results. Information obtain from these metrics assist organizations to improve their productivity, drop error rate and improve product quality and services level to achieve their desired business goals. Being a good performance engineer, one must have strong understanding of performance problematic areas of the AUT and right set of performance counters of each of these areas. In this article, different aspects of performance metrics and potential performance problematic areas of web applications are discussed

This article summaries common issues that lead to performance problems. To track and address such types of issues, monitoring server components is very essential. By tracking these counters during the tests and appropriately analyzing the graphs, performance tester can quickly narrow down to understand which performance issue is causing the issue. Thus issue resolution becomes faster.

Performance tuning is a vital part of deploying and maintaining profitable business applications. This white paper explains the best practices in JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) performance tuning that can help you to avoid performance pitfalls when building your application for production.