1. Coverage on generating and understanding extended sql trace is excellent.

2. One of the very few book on Oracle tuning, which deals with a "methodology". I have read several books before this on optimizing Oracle performance and none explains any methodology. This book instead of diving straight into v$ view and statspack data, first makes a ground of what approach should be taken. So its like, what needs to be done and then how to do that.

I find this book incredibly useful.

Thanks
bipul


A change of viewpoint   December 11, 2003
 7 out of 8 found this review helpful

To me this was a revolutionary way of looking at the performance of the various databases within our organisation.
Was the book helpful - yes.
Did it solve our performance problems - well, not all of them, but it did show us where to go and look, in the network rather than the database itself.
Was it a worthwhile investment - absolutely! The ability to provide the statistics in the book has enabled me to be teflon-shouldered a number of times already, rather than wasting my time looking for problems outside of the database. If only all aspects of an end-to-end solution were as well instrumented and timed as this shows Oracle to be, then finding the real source of performance problems would be so much easier....developers take note!