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Summary: Concern about typo-errrors throughout the book
Review: Eventhough I like this book very much,I concern about some examples the author shows
in the book. For eample, in the chk_nxtext.sql script, the author mentions about sys.Free_Blocks table, which does not exist in ORACLE database version 7.0 to 7.3
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Summary: Excellent!!! Cannot do without it.
Review: Great scripts - really come in handy. Very good tuning and troubleshooting tips and techniques. Has saved me and made me look good on numerous occassions.I have a dog-eared copy that I carry with me to all my assignments. Unfortunatley I'll have to return it to my company when I leave but you can be sure that I'll go out and buy my own copy immediately.
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Summary: Excellect book for increasing Oracle performance
Review: I found this book to be extremely insightful with respect to Oracle internals and how to tune both the data base as well as queries. The range of the book covers both DBA and developer topics and should be on your bookshelf if you are in any way responsible for an applications performance using Oracle.
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Summary: A little out of date, a few typos, but the best you can get
Review: I have been using a copy of this book for a couple of years now, and I have still kept it as my 'good tricks' bible since becoming being a certified Oracle dba. Ok, so not all the queries run first time as given, and the book is really about Oracle 7, but this is still the first reference book I turn to whenever another dba comes up with a 'I've tried everything to do this, but nothing works' type question. A very good book to read if you want to know how to make Oracle work for you.
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Summary: Don't tune Oracle without this book!
Review: If your measure of a truly useful technical guide is the amount of time it spends off the shelf and next to your keyboard, then this is a book you don't want to be without. It is filled with practical, real-world tips to tune your Oracle database. It covers everything from tuning your environment to tuning your queries--across all platforms!A must for developers, administrators, and users alike
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Summary: This book made me some bucks
Review: Many of the tricks and approaches offered in here can enable you to perform some impressive rescuing of slow applications. Management tends to like this quite a bit. Having had this book from way back, there were many tips in there that were not available from the standard Oracle documentation such as making a query return unique records by using the rowid in the where clause. If you're in a database-centric development or DBA position, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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Summary: This book made me some bucks
Review: Many of the tricks and approaches offered in here can enable you to perform some impressive rescuing of slow applications. Management tends to like this quite a bit. Having had this book from way back, there were many tips in there that were not available from the standard Oracle documentation such as making a query return unique records by using the rowid in the where clause. If you're in a database-centric development or DBA position, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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Summary: Bible for Performance Tuning
Review: The First and the last book on Performance Tuning
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Summary: One of my favorite - but needs to be updated for Oracle8i
Review: The first edition, or as we affectionately called it, the "Bee" book was the bible. I recently bought the 2nd edition for old times sake. It still has a lot of good info but sorely needs to be updated. There are many Oracle8i performance features such as tempfile for temporary files that are not mentioned. Instead, I am turning to more recent text like Oracle8i & Unix Perf Tuning by Ahmed Alomari and Oracle Perf Tuning Tips by Richard Niemiec. Mark, loved your books. Can't wait for the updates.
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Summary: One of my favorite - but needs to be updated for Oracle8i
Review: The first edition, or as we affectionately called it, the "Bee" book was the bible. I recently bought the 2nd edition for old times sake. It still has a lot of good info but sorely needs to be updated. There are many Oracle8i performance features such as tempfile for temporary files that are not mentioned. Instead, I am turning to more recent text like Oracle8i & Unix Perf Tuning by Ahmed Alomari and Oracle Perf Tuning Tips by Richard Niemiec. Mark, loved your books. Can't wait for the updates.
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