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Summary: Get to the heart of your Tuning issues.
Review: "High-Performance Tuning with Statspack" establishes a baseline understanding of tuning and addresses each topic in an easy to understand manor, with illustrated examples of how to implement the concept. There are commands and tools to identify network and system performance slow downs, like top, iostats and vmstat. Each is documented how to use and what the output really means. Examples throughout the book include the commands for different hardware, like Solaris, HP and AIX. The one thing I found most useful was the methodical way to identify a performance issue as a network, system, rdbms or sql code issue. This book is filled with tips and tricks, sql code, and other useful commands that help you get to the heart of the your tuning issues.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Great book, very helpful. It does a wonderful job of explaining how to tune Oracle. Author provides many tips and tricks to improve performance. It contains easy to follow, step-by-step installation instructions and comes with many useable and helpful scripts. I give it an A+!
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Summary: Very helpful scripts & approach to tuning
Review: I found this to be an easy step-by-step guide to the install and use of STATSPACK. The pre-tested scripts are great, and I was able to get STATSPACK running on my database in just a few hours. The STATSPACK extentions for table and index data are also very useful. The text is well-written and easy to understand.
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Summary: Very helpful scripts & approach to tuning
Review: I found this to be an easy step-by-step guide to the install and use of STATSPACK. The pre-tested scripts are great, and I was able to get STATSPACK running on my database in just a few hours. The STATSPACK extentions for table and index data are also very useful. The text is well-written and easy to understand.
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Summary: Good way to start monitoring Oracle
Review: I got this book after reading the Burleson SQL tuning book, and I was able to get my database monitoring started in less than a day.It explains how statspack works, and has nice scripts that will run as-is to get detailed tuning reports for Oracle. It also explains how to install statspack, and has some great scripts for getting Oracle server data also. This textbook was well worth the price.
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Summary: Best book yet on Oracle tuning
Review: I really enjoyed the insights in this book. I have been a DBA for 8 years, and this is one of the best books for describing how to tune Oracle. The explainations are clear, and the book has a tight focus on the important tuning factors. I was also impressed with the STATSPACK scripts, and this book made it easy for me to set up tuning for my database.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I was expecting this book to describe and help me decipher the statspack information to help me tune the database. Author focuses more on customizing statspack and running scripts against the statspack tables. Anyways, not what I needed. I'd like to know how to decipher Oracle's cryptic information.
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Summary: A Good general tunng book, too
Review: In addition to STATSPACK, this book has great info on general Oracle tuning.
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Summary: Interesting, very practical
Review: It's quite difficult to write a book about statistical analysis, UNIX server tuning and Oracle tuning. What's very difficult is to have a general method for several UNIX flavours (and NT, of course) and Oracle versions. Generally speaking, this book exposes basic and advanced techniques for server and Oracle tuning. What is very interesting, is the trend-analysis approach the author uses to show statistical performance information. Using this approach, you can make a better capacity planning for your database. With this book, I realized there was no reason for still wasting my time analyzing UTLBSTAT/UTLESTAT reports, wich cann't provide me with any time-based information and a limited scope of statistical information. Another good point, this book helps you to make extensions for the STATSPACK code. For example, it includes several scripts about how to collect and analyze server performance statistical information (like VMSTAT, SAR, etc). Regarding this point, it's advisable you check too the server provider tuning manuals (like Compaq, Sun, HP, IBM, etc) to confirm any performance recomendation. For Unix servers and complex tuning, take a look for Ahmed Alomari-Oracle8 and Unix tuning, wich is very much deep and precise.
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Summary: i don't think it is good at all
Review: just like what i said in my title
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