Yes it is out. And yes, Rachel "The Goddess" Carmichael has the lion's share
to make it fun for the new "tuner" while learning a few new things.
One of the "unknowns" is John Kanagaraj.
- Kirti
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:carmichr_at_hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:15 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: On the question of "What is a Large Database Anyway ?"
>
> Cary wrote the intro (and, along with Scott Gossett of Oracle University,
> Craig Shallahamer and a few other "unknowns") did the tech-edit. I had the
>
> privilege of doing the "developmental edit" (this means I got to help Gaja
>
> make it fun and understandable for an entry-level tuner). But it also
> meant
> I got to read it as Gaja and Kirti were writing it.... it's a wonderful
> book
> and I believe it's actually out now.
>
>
> >From: Mogens Nørgaard <mno_at_MiracleAS.dk>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: Re: On the question of "What is a Large Database Anyway ?"
> >Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 00:01:18 -0800
> >
> >It's a good book. Cary Millsap has even written the intro :).
> >
> >Yep, Gaja will talk about using the wait-interface (available since
> 7.0.12)
> >instead of all these stupid and mis-leading ratios flying around. That
> and
> >Jonathan Lewis' book are the best I've seen since Dave Ensors Oracle8
> >Design book, but that's kind of old now.
> >
> >For the original intro to the wait-interface (or time-based) tuning, you
> >should of course read Anjo Kolks famous YAPP paper.
> >
> >"Post, Ethan" wrote:
> >
> > > I just got back from a little seminar from Quest with Gaja Krishna
> > > Vaidyanatha and if he was dead (he's not that I'm aware of) he would
> be
> > > rolling in his grave about your comments on hit rates and SGA sizes.
> >His
> > > new book 101 Oracle Performance Tuning will stress that you abandon
> >those
> > > hit rates and focus on V$SYSTEM_EVENT, V$SESSION_EVENT and
> >V$SESSION_WAIT in
> > > combination with CPU and IO stats. He states that Oracle is rather
> well
> > > designed for physical IO. His presentation was great and I'm
> definatley
> > > going to buy his book because I can learn something from this guy. So
>
> >maybe
> > > those small SGA's aren't so bad after all :)
> > >
> > >
> >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072131454/o/qid=991436418/sr=2-1/
> ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/002-4814740-2092864
> > >
> > > - Ethan Post
>
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