RE: new sql tuning book - Author's response

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:38:47 -0800

Thanks for chiming in here Dan.

Now I'm really looking forward to this book.

As it so happens, I have this one really nasty
query that just takes way too long...

Jared

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:02, Dan Tow wrote:
> Hi, this is Dan Tow, the author of SQL Tuning, wading in with a few remarks:
> 
> One of the list members (no, not my editor) let me know of this thread, so I 
> thought I might clear up a few things with a response. There's been some 
> speculation regarding the origin of the method I describe in the book. I came 
> up with it on my own about ten years ago, without a literature search, but 
> later learned that there was some fairly similar stuff out there in the 
> academic literature that long predated my entry into the field, so I make no 
> particular claim to the method being hugely original. However, I believe that 
> the book is at least original as a *non-academic*, readable, detailed 
> description of the approach.
...


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