Ciao Alberto From my part, independently of the content of the book, I'll buy it without hesitation. Therefore I didn't have a look to the information provided by Apress on their homepage. But as I wrote I *guess* the book will have almost the same content as the class. During the class after general stuff about CP, workload characterization and how to get statistics from the OS/Oracle, modeling techniques like linear regression, queuing and simulation are explained. HTH Chris -----Original Message----- From: Alberto Dell'Era [mailto:alberto.dellera@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 4:05 PM To: Christian Antognini Cc: Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: New book Is the book about something like "how to build a mathematical model of your system/workload" and then use it to forecast its growth ? On 3/29/07, Christian Antognini <Christian.Antognini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Joel > > 2 years ago I attended Craig's class about the same subject. I *guess* > the book contains almost the same information in the same quality. From > my part I'll buy the book a soon as it is available. > > HTH > Chris -- Alberto Dell'Era "dulce bellum inexpertis" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l