Oracle8i and Unix Performance Tuning

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Summary: An overall guide to tuning Oracle on UNIX
Review: I thought this book covered the topic of performance tuning Oracle on UNIX thoroughly. It includes Oracle 7, 8 and 8.1 on Solaris, Sequent and HP. It includes an entire chapter on each of OLTP and DSS. It also has chapters on installation of the OS and Oracle. It didn't really add much to my knowledge of 7.3 but I picked up several good tidbits on 8i.

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Summary: Real world Oracle Tuning Book...
Review: The book covers Oracle,Unix and Hardware issues in equal depth. It is very much detailed (though there are very few errors) and better than most of the Oracle Tuning books.

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Summary: Great for Indepth Oracle tuning on UNIX
Review: This book is an excellent overview of how the Oracle RDBMS runs on the various flavors of the Unix operating system. Knowledgeable Oracle DBA's will take away many performance tuning tips with a complete understanding of why, when, and how to implement. The first two chapters on The Unix Kernel and Paging/Swapping should be required reading for anyone administering Oracle on Unix.

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Summary: Good overview for Oracle on Unix
Review: This book is an excellent overview of how the Oracle RDBMS runs on the various flavors of the Unix operating system. Knowledgeable Oracle DBA's will take away many performance tuning tips with a complete understanding of why, when, and how to implement. The first two chapters on The Unix Kernel and Paging/Swapping should be required reading for anyone administering Oracle on Unix.

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Summary: Great for Indepth Oracle tuning on UNIX
Review: This is the only book that covers indepth tuning for Oracle databases in UNIX environments. The author cover tuning from a hardware, OS perspective as well as OLTP and DSS. This edition is better than the previous two. Topics convered include Volume Management, RAID, CPU, Memory for UNIX and all aspects of Oracle tuning. I recommend this book for experienced administrators (UNIX Admins and Oracle DBAs) because the author assumes good knowledge of Oracle architecture.