RE: RE: Useful Oracle books
- From: "Nelson, Allan" <anelson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:43:47 -0500
Real expertise could be developed by doing it yourself. If you used
some of the test table techniques that J. Lewis has popularized in book
and presentations you could relatively easily generate test cases
against whatever version you were pleased to test. Then you could set
up a website, speak at the Hotsos Symposium (maybe, they get really good
folks and the competition might be fierce), and become a widely
recognized expert yourself :-)
Allan
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charu Joshi
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:48 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: RE: Useful Oracle books
I purchased Harrison's book about 3 months before I heard of Dan
Tow's book. Now I am a bit afraid that I might get wrong/outdated
facts. Can anybody tell what parts of the book are still relevant
and what parts are best avoided? Or should I throw it away and go
for Dan's book?
The good thing about the book is the conclusions of the test cases
have been highlighted as boxed tips and have also been put
together in the second chapter (although test cases aren't always
'well rounded'). So an expert can quickly go through the
chapter/boxed tips ticking them as Good/So-So/Outdated and
summarize the score to form an opinion. I hope somebody does/has
done that.
Thanks & regards,
Charu.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 28 May 2004 00:06
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: RE: Useful Oracle books
> Harrison's book is 'ok'. Doesn't teach you how to tune and has a
> huge and pretty pathetic error in it. It says you can improve
> performance of some updates by using a cursor and updating
inside
> the cursor. Its actually takes about twice as long or worse.
Clearly
> he never tested that statement. To be fair the 8i version of
> Fuersteins pl/sql book has the same error(never read the 9i
one).
Perhaps an example would help. I don't have the book handy to
check,
but there are cases where updating inside is cursor is very fast.
Ever used "where current of"?
> For overall tuning the book to get is 'Optimizing Oracle
> Performance' by Carrie Milsap. I also recommend going to
www.hotsos.
> com and reading his articles.
"Cary" is of the male gender. Maybe that will help.
> For general Oracle get Tom Kyte's 'Expert one on One'. His
tuning
> book is 'ok', but the other two I mentioned are better.
OK? You either didn't read it, or didn't learn anything from it.
Jared
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