Re: TOTOT: Fantastic reviews
- From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:19:39 +0100
<review>
I'm highly disappointed in this book. These so-called experts merely
use bluster and story-telling to mask their poor knowledge of database
systems. For example, nowhere in the book do the authors backup their
claims with reference to the well documented efficiency measures that
are a standard part of every dbas toolkit.
There is also no coverage of the time-consuming but necessary
maintenance steps that are needed to pro-actively manage your database
system. For example index and tablespace management barely gets a
mention.
Many of the stories focus on 'user satisfaction' and other trendy and
vague management speak, rather than the detailed presentation of
metrics and statistics. Indeed one of the authors airly dismisses the
the metric based approach as 'compulsive tuning disorder' a clearer
case of missing the point has not been seen for a long time.
</review>
Is the book available in the UK yet?=20
Niall
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 08:00:39 +0200, Mogens N=F8rgaard <mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wr=
ote:
> Well, if I start revealing the true nature of x$ksmlru (it pretty much
> behaves like many of the attractive women I've met: As soon as you look
> at the tuples, they disappear) then I'm doomed. Nobody will need Oracle
> consultants anymore. I know that Juan Loaiza made the fatal mistake of
> discussing it with a 7.3-era note, but fortunately most people have
> forgotten it.
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> But there you go: The first major revelation of Oracle's internals.
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> Next: x$kcf stuff.
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> Mogens
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> PS: By the way: Thanks to Mladen, Jared and Rachel for the reviews -
> THAT is exactly the kind of reviews I was hoping for. They should be
> posted on our website RSN.
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> Richard Ji wrote:
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> > It is a shame. When are you going to reveal all the Oracle
> > internal data structures?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Sun 8/1/2004 11:37 PM
> > To: Oracle-L Freelists
> > Cc:=3D09
> > Subject: Re: TOTOT: Fantastic reviews
> > On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 16:17, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> >
> >>yeah I've been reading the book. Man, Dave Ensor is just quoting the
> >>docs... and to make it worse, he's quoting the Version 5 docs at that!
> >>Just sooooo relevant
> >>=3D20
> >
> >
> >
> > All I've seen so far is Cary Millsap's chapter on the Oracle Wait
> > Interface and 10046 tracing. That is so version 7: it's almost
> > retro, ya know?
> >
> > Nonetheless, I'm afraid Mogens, that you are in for further=3D20
> > disappointment.
> >
> >
> > Jared
> >
> >
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Niall Litchfield
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