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Summary: Helpful
Review: This book has a lot of Oracle tuning tips and advise about some certain plattforms and technologies. Although there's a lot of considerable information about almost anything related with Oracle tuning (including OPS), it doesn't provide with a concise method or guide.The book is structured to help you at different stages of your Oracle implementation (design phase, production, proactive and reactive tuning, capacity planning, etc). But that good schema looks very confuse when the author starts to make suggestions or tips that aren't sorted by any kind of category (and they often takes a lot of pages)... Those comments are very good, so it needs a bit of more organization. I recommend this book for instance and database tuning, but not for SQL tuning (the author has another excellent book on this subject). There aren't too many advices regarding the plattform (unix or nt), so, keep in mind you'll need more support.
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Summary: Great book, should be added to your collection.
Review: This book has helped me quickly go from an beginning/intermediate level Oracle developer to an advanced developer. It has allowed me to quickly debug and correct real world performance problems under both Oracle 7.3 and Oracle 8.0. This was the forth Oracle performance related book I purchased and it has been ten times as helpful and insightful as the other three combined. This book is easy to understand and broken down in to very logic chapters. I can't say enough about this book. I would definitely add this to your collection!
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Summary: Something for everyone.
Review: This book was recommended by a friend but, when I started reading it, I thought they were pulling my leg. It was too easy to read and understand to be a real Oracle reference manual, wan't it? Now it is my main reference for all Oracle Performance tuning and debugging problems. Invaluable.
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Summary: Badly needs updating, typos corrected and much better index
Review: This is the best overall book on Oracle Tuning but the editors were sloppy in weeding out the typos--no excuse for a second edition book. The index is one of the worst that I've ever seen in a technical book; sometimes you practically have to look at every page to find what you're looking for because of the way the book is organized.
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Summary: Great text, but watch those typos!
Review: This text offers many, many pieces of good advice and many insights into the internals of the Oracle server. It is one of the the top two or three book s on the subject and as such, is easy to recommend. BUT, be very careful of most example scripts. Many have syntax errors (which is strange , given they are clearly 'cut and paste' from a screen dump). If you are an experienced DBA, you will spot them on reading. At worst they will be obvious when they generate an error. However for the less experienced, there could be some frustrating moments. This is very disappointing for the second edition of a book (some of the grammar leaves alot to be desired too!). Also on the downside, the book claims to include updates for Oracle 8, but this is a rather generous claim, Many examples or recommendations are redundant in an Oracle 8 environment but are not identified as such. Overall though, still a worthwhile part of any DBA's toolkit.
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Summary: Great text, but watch those typos!
Review: To say this book is only about 'Performance Tuning' would be like saying 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare' were only about Elizabethan England. As an Oracle DBA contractor, who's switched from Informix, this book was invaluable in bringing me onside with how 'Oracle' works. I have purchased a large number of Oracle texts from Amazon in the past, mostly from the Osborne and O'Reilly ranges. If for some mysterious reason, they were all to be 'borrowed' one day without trace, this would be the first one I would re-buy.
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Summary: How Much Tuning is Enough?
Review: To say this book is only about 'Performance Tuning' would be like saying 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare' were only about Elizabethan England. As an Oracle DBA contractor, who's switched from Informix, this book was invaluable in bringing me onside with how 'Oracle' works. I have purchased a large number of Oracle texts from Amazon in the past, mostly from the Osborne and O'Reilly ranges. If for some mysterious reason, they were all to be 'borrowed' one day without trace, this would be the first one I would re-buy.
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Summary: Good book, but...
Review: While this book is an in-depth reference for Oracle performance tuning, it could benefit from more concrete examples. I have found myself reading the same pages over and over again, still not making sense, whereas a simple example would help clarify things immensely. I would not call this the "bible" of performance tuning. Maybe a prayer book, because you'll need a few to get anything to work.
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