Scalability
As mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, even powerful servers cannot always handle database load and capacity requirements. Server scalability can be improved using one or more of the following methods:
Increase the processor count on the system, or scale up the computing resources.
Increase the amount of work done in a given time via application tuning or speed up the processing.
The most common view of scaling is that of hardware scaling, which has at least as much to do with the software components as with the hardware. But ...
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