Craig Shallahamer gave a great presentation at the most recent Vancouver Oracle User Group meeting, and during his intro he mentioned that his Oracle Performance Firefighting book is certainly available. I haven't picked up the book yet, but it's on my to-do list. :-) You can order it here: http://resources.orapub.com/Oracle_Performance_Firefighting_Book_p/ff_book.htm Regards, John P. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Martin Klier <usn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think the new Performance Firefighting book written by Craig > Shallahamer should be quite good. Did not buy it for myself yet, don't > even know if it's already out. But I like his writing, so I will buy it, > it's the next on my list. > > > Guillermo Alan Bort schrieb: > > 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.- > > -- > Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk > http://www.usn-it.de > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >