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Summary: My most prized SQL tuning reference!
Review: I have other tuning references, but this is my favorite. The real-life examples and results have saved me hours of frustration. I especially like the chapter on EXPLAIN PLAN, which contains an excellent explaination of the results. I highly recommend it to other DBA's/Developer's.
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Summary: My most prized SQL tuning reference!
Review: I have other tuning references, but this is my favorite. The real-life examples and results have saved me hours of frustration. I especially like the chapter on EXPLAIN PLAN, which contains an excellent explaination of the results. I highly recommend it to other DBA's/Developer's.
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Summary: Mediocre Effort At Best
Review: I've been programming with Oracle for two and a half years now. I felt that a "High Performance" programming book might be able to help me out, so I opted for this book. While some of the suggestions are helpful, I don't find most of them to be all that special. The basic concept of the book is, "use Explain Plan" (ie tune your code) and "Use indexes when you can" - Oooh ! That's insightful! Much of the book is wasted space with the author showing the various permutations of his explain plan output. Four sentences of programming suggestions, followed by two pages of output, doesn't make for particularly interesting reading in my world. Granted, the book gives you more, and in better layout than most Oracle texts out there, but I guess I was hoping for more.
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Summary: Mediocre Effort At Best
Review: I've been programming with Oracle for two and a half years now. I felt that a "High Performance" programming book might be able to help me out, so I opted for this book. While some of the suggestions are helpful, I don't find most of them to be all that special. The basic concept of the book is, "use Explain Plan" (ie tune your code) and "Use indexes when you can" - Oooh ! That's insightful! Much of the book is wasted space with the author showing the various permutations of his explain plan output. Four sentences of programming suggestions, followed by two pages of output, doesn't make for particularly interesting reading in my world. Granted, the book gives you more, and in better layout than most Oracle texts out there, but I guess I was hoping for more.
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Summary: Dont buy this book
Review: If you want to learn SQL tuning this is not hte book. I guess the author has just filled the book. All, I learned in the end is use indexes (OK!!!). Using indexes is only one part of SQL tuning. There are other issues which have not been explored at all. It is a sheer waste of money to buy this book. I would rather recommend other fine books by Oracle Press and Prentice Hall on Tuning. Bottomline, Dont buy this book. I would have given it a Zero Star if one was available. It was a waste of my money.
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Summary: Dont buy this book
Review: If you want to learn SQL tuning this is not hte book. I guess the author has just filled the book. All, I learned in the end is use indexes (OK!!!). Using indexes is only one part of SQL tuning. There are other issues which have not been explored at all. It is a sheer waste of money to buy this book. I would rather recommend other fine books by Oracle Press and Prentice Hall on Tuning. Bottomline, Dont buy this book. I would have given it a Zero Star if one was available. It was a waste of my money.
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Summary: This book is the best I have read for serious tuning.
Review: This book was a major disappointment. It is verbose, poorly oraganized, and contains numerous minor mis-statements. This appears to have been written about ver 7.3 and then a chapter was added to claim to cover ver. 8. Not recommended.
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