This manual contains information on performance tuning issues and methods that are relevant to daily database server administration and query execution. Performance measurement and tuning encompass a broad area of research and practice and can involve information beyond the scope of this manual. For more information about the types of information contained in the manual and the topics that are beyond the scope of this manual, see About This Manual.
For a description of the database server parallel processing and the applications that use the database server, see the IBM Informix: Dynamic Server Getting Started Guide.
This chapter does the following: