Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 864 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1st Edition May 12, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0072224738
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072224733
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 1.7 inches
- Weighs: 3.1 pounds
Reader Reviews
I devoured this book over the weekend after a good DBA friend of mine recommend it to me. Also a very senior Oracle DBA consultant who interviewed me a year ago suggested that I study it to get senior DBA job. Overall an excellent text- clearly written packed with tons of very useful tuning information and of course the cute photo of Mr. Larry Ellison when he was 22 years old and looked like a pencil geek rather than the gazillionaire today. My only beef- NO CD-ROM or link to ANY of the scripts or tables for the book! This is frustrating guys because when I try to follow along with the tuning examples in the book I cannot duplicate same results to see how the tuning is performed. Other than that gripe a highly recommend it to Oracle DBAs. I also like the sections on X$ tables- few places actually discuss this and its nice to know how the X$ tables interact with Oracle kernel and Operating system. Best chapters to me were Chapters 6-9 on using native Oracle trace and tuning tools like tkprof, sql trace and stored outlines. Chapter on index tuning and tuning SQL queries and joins really my favorites as few places discuss this. AND just be advised all you DBAs- managers and senior Oracle guys will tech you out on very very difficult tuning questions so study and review this book before and after interviews to land job! Along with Guy Harrisons SQL tuning book and Richmond Shee's tuning book on Oracle Wait interface the best three tuning books ever written for hungry DBAs. When users scream and yell that they cannot run a report these will save your job.
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