Analyatical Study and Evaluation of Database Optimization Techniques

Data Management can be considered as one of most crucial part in world of technology. The primary challenge is not just maintaining data & information, but to access them in an efficient manner as well. Database optimization techniques have been designed to address these tasks that may otherwise limit the performance of a database to an extent of vulnerability. In this paper we discuss the aspects of performance optimization related to data access in transactional databases. Furthermore, we analyze the effect of these optimization techniques. One of key part in database management is database management tools they provide query optimizer that helps to find out the efficient method for SQL query statement to access requested data by user. This optimizer chooses the plan with the lowest cost among all considered candidate plans. Optimizer uses available statistics to calculate cost, for a specific query in a given environment, the cost computation accounts for factors of query execution such as I/O, CPU, and communication

Coping strategies and perceiving stress among athletes during different waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Data from Poland, Romania, and Slovakia

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has affected numerous aspects of human functioning. Social contacts, work, education, travel, and sports have drastically changed during the lockdown periods. The pandemic restrictions have severely limited professional athletes’ ability to train and participate in competitions. For many who rely on sports as their main source of income, this represents a source of intense stress. To assess the dynamics of perceived stress as well as coping strategies during different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, we carried out a longitudinal study using the Perception of Stress Questionnaire and the Brief COPE on a sample of 2020 professional athletes in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The results revealed that in all three countries, the highest intrapsychic stress levels were reported during the fourth wave (all, p < 0.01) and the highest external stress levels were reported before the pandemic (p < 0.05). To analyze the data, analyses of variance were carried out using Tukey’s post hoc test and η2 for effect size. Further, emotional tension was the highest among Polish and Slovak athletes in the fourth wave, while the highest among Romanian athletes was in the pre-pandemic period. The coping strategies used by the athletes in the fourth wave were more dysfunctional than during the first wave (independent t test and Cohen’s d were used). The dynamics of the coping strategies—emotion focused and problem focused—were also discussed among Polish, Romanian, and Slovak athletes. Coaches and sports psychologists can modify the athletes’ perceived stress while simultaneously promoting effective coping strategies.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio