In today's high-stakes business environment, system performance is the king of the jungle. From system and load distribution, to memory management, to buffering and locks, you know there are many pitfalls to avoid. Up to date for SAP NetWeaver 7.3, this authoritative guide to analysis and tuning offers the practical tips and real-world examples to reach your tuning potential day in and day out. Anticipate, identify, analyze, and solve performance problems to keep your SAP system on top.

Make your SAP system run quickly and efficiently
Master core concepts like sizing, memory management, and database monitoring
Explore new topics such as SAP HANA, SAP Sybase ASE, and innovations in SAP NetWeaver AS Java

SAP Basis
Get complete coverage of the SAP Basis hardware, database, memory configuration, and work processes to maximize system analysis and tuning.

Analysis Tools
Explore the analysis and tuning tools integrated with SAP NetWeaver 7.3 and get previews of version 7.4.

Everything Java
Learn to evaluate CPU performance and available memory, use the SAP Management Console, and clear memory with garbage collection in the SAP Java Virtual Machine.

Databases and SQL Processing
From SAP MaxDB to DB2 to SAP Sybase ASE, find the most important information about database monitoring and optimizing SQL statements.

Performance Optimization with SAP HANA
Make your SAP system faster, sleeker, and stronger with new SAP HANA technologies like in-memory and column-based data storage.

Workload analysis
Remote function calls
Memory configuration
SQL statements, locks, and buffering
System architecture
SAP NetWeaver BW and queries
SAP Java Virtual Machine
Hardware sizing and system distribution
Main memory data with TREX and SAP HANA
SAP Sybase ASE

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Performance Management of an SAP Solution
Chapter 2. Analysis of Hardware, Database, and ABAP Application Server
Chapter 3. Workload Analysis
Chapter 4. Identifying Performance Problems in ABAP Programs
Chapter 5. Hardware Sizing and System and Load Distribution
Chapter 6. Memory Management
Chapter 7. Load Distribution and Remote Function Calls
Chapter 8. SAP GUI and Internet Connection
Chapter 9. Locks
Chapter 10. Optimizing Java Virtual Machine and Java Programs
Chapter 11. Optimizing SQL Statements
Chapter 12. SAP Buffering
Chapter 13. Optimizing Queries in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
Chapter 14. Optimizing Search Queries Using TREX
Chapter 15. Optimizing Database Queries with SAP HANA