Sybase ASE 12.5 Performance and Tuning [With Cdrm]

This book is an excellent introduction to the subject of how Companion Server, Replication Server and Open Switch work together. It also covers software pros and cons to help you make business decisions on its implementation. This book is very easy to read and has real life practical tips and suggestions at the end. A good overall "how to" book. There should be more technical books out there written like this.

This book answers all the really tough questions in very clear and simple ways. Much of the info in this book is the sort of stuff you're only lucky enough to get if you happen to have a Sybase performance expert onsite. If you've ever found yourself with a really tricky performance question you know what a good thing it is to find information about Sybase monitoring tools and performance troubleshooting all in a single book. This book appears to have been written by people with much experience in troubleshooting performance problems and the advice is about the best you're going to get anywhere.