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That's one book that I don't have. A good friend of mine says it's very
good, especially as an introduction.
I browsed it in a bookstore once, and if my memory serves me correctly, the only reason I didn't buy it is that I felt like Gross & Harris (which I already owned) covered everything I would have gotten had I bought the Tanner book. It's probably not a completely fair assessment, but it's all I had to work with in a 10-minute window.
Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
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-----Original Message-----
Michael Milligan
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:59 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Cary,
Is Mike Tanner's book "Practical Queuing Analysis" good in your opinion?
Michael Milligan
Oracle DBA
Ingenix, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I don't know exactly how to scope your question, so I'll answer the two things I think it might mean.
For every chapter except for Chapter 9 (Queueing Theory), even college calculus would be extreme overkill, even if you're looking to *derive* all the formulas in those chapters. Understanding the formulas in Chapters 1-8 and 9-12 requires only that you understand that capital Sigma means "sum."
If you want to dig into the field of queueing theory in more depth, then the level of mathematical background depends on what your goals are. If you want to understand where the formulas come from, then you should probably begin with a good probability and statistics course. This is the foundation of queueing theory.
If you buy a copy of the Gross & Harris queueing theory book (I have a lot of queueing theory books, and this is by far my favorite), you can see where all the formulas come from. Much of the math in G&H is way over my head. I haven't contributed much to the body of queueing theory knowledge except for integrating some pieces from different sources into a coherent plan for Oracle practitioners, offering some commonsense explanations of how to use the stuff, and discovering a couple of bugs in the literature (a big one in Jain's CDF, and a tiny one in G&H's CDF). What I did do, I accomplished with computer science methods, not mathematical ones. You can see what I mean on page 236, which is probably my favorite page in the whole book.
But, as I've said before, you don't have to know how to derive the formulas in order to use them. With the spreadsheet and Perl code I've written (available at oreilly.com), you can solve a large number of problems without even being able to *read* the formulas.
<personal-hypothesis>
I think that some people find the presence of Greek letters jarring
(well, at least Don Burleson, from the looks of his review at amazon),
but the Greek letters are just funny-looking names of things. Some of my
friends implored me to use Latin characters instead of Greek ones, and I
considered the case carefully. But in the end, I didn't presume to start
rearranging the names of things that have been studied carefully by
several generations of scientists since the early 1800s. See p228 for
more info on this.
</personal-hypothesis>
Cary Millsap
Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.
http://www.hotsos.com
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