Dan Tow's _SQL Tuning_ from O;Reilly's pretty good from a cross-platform perspective. Jonathan Lewis' _Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals_ is the single-best Oracle resource I've read. On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listers, > > I've been working as a physical DBA for a long time and have developed my > instance tuning skills rather well. However, I want to direct my career to a > more comprehensive type of DBA and was wondering if there were any books on > query tuning, both oracle specific and general 'good practices' you could > recommend. > > Thank you very much. > Alan.- > -- Adam Musch ahmusch@xxxxxxxxx -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l