Oracle Press "Oracle Wait Interface" book
- From: Tim Gorman <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:42:18 -0600
I just have to say this. I¹m not a shill for anybody involved, just
extremely excited and needing to say something about it...
I had received a copy of this book several months ago, but had lacked the
time or inclination to open it and start reading.
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What a mistake! I live this stuff almost every day, and reading it sooner
would have benefited me immediately.
The book (whose full title is ³Oracle Wait Interface: A Practical Guide to
Performance Diagnostics & Tuning²) is simply spectacular, both for the
quality of its writing as well as the depth of the material. Practical?
Indeed, indispensible!
The three authors, Richmond Shee, Kirti Deshpande, and K Gopalakrishnan,
have done a wonderful job in organizing a enormous subject area into
manageable chunks. They have also managed to render potentially bone-dry
source material into very readable text, interspersed heavily with code
examples and output, sidebars, and analogies. This is a good read as well
as an authoritative reference. I¹m still unable to read it steadily for
long periods of time, as the analogy of trying to drink from a fire-hose is
relevant here. But picking it up and reading different sections, treating
it like a reference, has proved rewarding. Richmond, Kirti, and K had an
absolute ³dream team² of reviewers on this book in Kyle Hailey, John
Kanagaraj, Craig Shallahamer, and Graham Wood. The combined efforts of the
three authors and the four technical editors blows my mind.
All I can say is ? get it! You may (like me) not read it immediately. But,
keep it handy. Along with the Google, Ixora, Asktom, JLComp, MetaLink
websites, this book is the place to find explanation for the unexplainable.
Start skimming through it and recognize situations that had previously
baffled now being explained (and proved) in full. It is like a light coming
on.
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Simply spectacular! My sincere thanks to the authoring and the editing
team!
-Tim
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