Rapidly increasing volume of information in a relational database where the load on the database, performance, and maintainability: DBAs are under greater pressure than ever to the database structure to optimize performance and system administration. Physical Database Design discusses the concept of how the physical structure of databases affect performance, including specific examples, guidelines, and best and worst practices for a variety of DBMSs and configurations. The first complete treatment on physical database design, written by the authors of seminal, Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design, 4th edition. Includes an introduction to key concepts of physical database design as well as detailed examples, using methodologies and tools most popular for relational databases today: Oracle, DB2 (IBM), and SQL Server (Microsoft). Focuses on physical database design for exploiting B + tree indexing, clustered indexes, multidimensional clustering (MDC), range partitioning, shared no partitions, shared disk data placement, materialized views, bitmap indexes, automated design tools, and more!