The actual title of the book will be "Oracle Tuning 101 - Learning the
Essentials of Oracle Performance Managment". I left out a couple of words
from it in my previous e-mail. Sorry about that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deshpande, Kirti
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 9:05 PM
> To: 'oracledba_at_quickdoc.co.uk'; 'oracle list'
> Subject: Oracle Performance - 'war stories' needed
>
> Folks,
> I am helping out someone who is writing a book. It will be published by
> Osborne McGraw-Hill (Oracle Press) sometimes April/May 2001. The book is
> titled "Oracle Tuning 101 - Learning the Essentials of Oracle".
>
> It would be a great help to us to hear your 'war stories' related to
> Performance of your Oracle based systems. Selected stories will be
> published in the book with appropriate credits to their contributors. We
> are interested in knowing your performance related problems and how you
> went about finding a solution to it, and its impact on the performance of
> the overall system. If you changed poor performing SQL to an efficient
> SQL, modified the Application design to better use of 'normalization' or
> 'de-normalization' techniques, changed physical layout of the database to
> take advantage of distributing I/O, or any other tricks/techniques that
> improved the performance of your systems, we would like to hear. If you
> have examples of bad/good SQL with Explain plans and performance
> statistics, that would be even better.
>
> According to the Author of the book, all selected stories will be entered
> into a raffle for a few free copies of the book.
>
> Just one request : Please send your contributions directly to me. NOT to
> the list. My e-mail address is kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com.
>
> Please feel free to e-mail me directly, if you need more information or
> have any questions.
>
> Thanks for your help in this effort.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Kirti Deshpande
Received on Sat Nov 04 2000 - 11:40:32 CST
