I have first hand witnesses who attended Hotsos courses and they were both delighted. The other good place, according to the book, would be http://www.singingsql.com. It's owned and maintained by Mr. Dan Tow, author of a very interesting tuning methodology based on graph theory. The book he wrote is excellent. Dan's book focuses on finding an optimal execution plan, not application end-to-end tuning like Cary's book. If his courses are anything like a book, then they must be very good. For a competent performance analyst (the job description of a "DBA" is rapidly falling out of grace, so we disguise ourselves as "performance analysts" or, better yet, as "performance experts". This gives us all the advantages of the DBA position, without having to worry about backup and recovery). I also believe that Dan Tow is a member of this list. -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -----Original Message----- From: Shrek [mailto:shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:41 AM To: sriram_kr_2000@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: SQL Tuning Courses On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:29:51 -0800 (PST), Sriram Ramachandran <sriram_kr_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are there any good SQL Tuning courses that are > available in the US? We have few Developers who needs > to be trained to write efficient and scalable SQLs and > i'm looking for suggestions. http://www.hotsos.com if you're going to send them, send them to the best. -- -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine (Song of Solomon 6:3) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l