There have been an emerging interests in the importance of database tuning techniques under modem database environments in which very large-scale data should be managed. In Particular. database performance parameters should be tuned to reflect system loads appropriately. This paper presents two parameter tuning strategies, namely throughput-based and response-time-based, which tune each performance parameter accordingly. The proposed techniques are applied to two commercial database systems in the TPC-W benchmark to see the effectiveness of those methods. The results show that they can help improve system performance considerably.