Re: RE: Useful Oracle books

  • From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:36:21 -0700

> Harrison's book is 'ok'. Doesn't teach you how to tune and has a 
> huge and pretty pathetic error in it. It says you can improve 
> performance of some updates by using a cursor and updating inside 
> the cursor. Its actually takes about twice as long or worse. Clearly
> he never tested that statement. To be fair the 8i version of 
> Fuersteins pl/sql book has the same error(never read the 9i one).
Perhaps an example would help.  I don't have the book handy to check,
but there are cases where updating inside is cursor is very fast.

Ever used "where current of"?


> For overall tuning the book to get is 'Optimizing Oracle 
> Performance' by Carrie Milsap. I also recommend going to www.hotsos.
> com and reading his articles. 

"Cary" is of the male gender.  Maybe that will help.


> For general Oracle get Tom Kyte's 'Expert one on One'. His tuning 
> book is 'ok', but the other two I mentioned are better. 

OK?  You either didn't read it, or didn't learn anything from it.

Jared


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