Vadiraja Bhatt 
Sr Staff Software Engineer
Sybase, Inc. Pune, India
                                                                                
                                                                                
                DBMS performance. A multi-dimensional challenge.
                                                                                
Over the past 2 decades traditional relational database servers have grown
to become critical back-end for almost all applications that there is.
With that they have endured several challenges that emerged out of user
requirements, new generation applications, ever changing hardware
architectures and numerous operating environments. Each of them have posed
very unique problem to solve and DBMS have adapted very well to these
challenges acceptable throughput and response times. This talk will go
over some of these challenges and the ways traditional DBMS have answered
them with various features, tunable and architectural changes.