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Book:   Optimizing Oracle Performance
Subject:   Really Great Reading
Date:   2004-09-04 18:29:14
From:   Paul Dyer
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

It has been quite some time since I had read a tech book cover to cover. This book presents valuable tuning information that has been a long time coming. The information meets my specific needs to solve performance issues in a direct, time-efficient manner. Trial-and-Error is no longer part of my work ethic. With C.Milsap's new tuning methodology, a deteministic approach to Oracle tuning is available for Oracle professionals.


My biggest regret is that I didn't have this information earlier; during the previous 3 or 4 multi-month efforts at tuning long-running SQL batch jobs. Each of my tuning efforts was a success in the end, but not without a significant waste of time using Trial-and-Error, or Intuition-via-Guess.


Also, I would like to thank the author for his work in Queuing Model Theory. Very, very few teachers and writers can deliver a useful and understandable presentation of queuing theory.

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