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I'm reading it. The theory sounds good. It takes practice to do the
diagraming method he teaches so some time with real queries is
mandatory. You can, of course, get training classes from his website.
The most interesting idea, IMO, is the idea he presents of robust query plans. His idea is that using a nested loops qep with the driving table chosen from the most selective filter, then joining to the next table with the next most selective filter and so on until all your joins are accounted for is seductive in its simplicity.
In support of that idea, we moved, last year from Oracle Financials 10.7 character mode to 11i which took us from the rule based optimizer to the cost based optimizer. A goodly number of queries degenerated in response time and were "fixed" by adding a rule hint.
Of course, this email over simplifies the book and the author has more to say than I have indicated here. One encouraging thing for me was that he got his start query tuning working for Oracle tuning Financials. Maybe not OPM though.
Allan
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Chris Stephens
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 4:21 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: new sql tuning book
Has anyone read the 'SQL Tuning Book' by Dan Tow from oreilly=3F It looks
to
be very good and I was thinking of picking it up.
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Any comments on the quality of the book would be much appreciated.
...after
this week, there is no doubt in my mind I need to improve my sql tuning
skillz!
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chris
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