Sneak peek: End-to-End Database Monitoring using IBM DB2 Performance Expert

(Holger Karn, Ute Baumbach and Torsten Steinbach) Distributed applications, although key to your business, often create serious challenges for DBAs who get panicked calls when response times go bad. Although a system administrator might be able to tell that there is a problem with a database application, any SQL request issued from that application travels a long way before it gets to the database and back to the user. Performance bottlenecks can occur anywhere in that stackfrom the application and the application server to the network, the database, and the operating system.