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Re: new sql tuning book - Author's response

From: Daniel Fink <Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:02:00 -0700
Message-id: <40291C98.66BA5FB@sun.com>


Ah, the unintended REPLY-TO-ALL...

Welcome, Dan. You are NOW truly a member of the list...

BTW, I'm working on reading my copy. And I have not downloaded the paper from Mogens website (yet...).

Daniel Fink

Dan Tow wrote:

> Aargh, I'm so sorry, everyone - this was meant to be a personal, kidding reply
> to Jared, not a crass advertisement to the whole group - I could have *sworn* I
> hit Reply, not Reply-to-all...
>
> Dan Tow
>
> Quoting Dan Tow <dantow_at_singingsql.com>:
>
> > Thanks, Jared, now if I can just get as much interest from the rest of the
> > list
> > in buying the book as there obviously is for that 50-page paper that Mogens
> > referenced;-)
> >
> > Dan Tow
> > dantow_at_singingsql.com
> > 650-858-1557
> > www.singingsql.com
> > We make SQL sing!
> >
> >
> > Quoting Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>:
> >
> > > Thanks for chiming in here Dan.
> > >
> > > Now I'm really looking forward to this book.
> > >
> > > As it so happens, I have this one really nasty
> > > query that just takes way too long...
> > >
> > > Jared
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:02, Dan Tow wrote:
> > > > Hi, this is Dan Tow, the author of SQL Tuning, wading in with a few
> > > remarks:
> > > >
> > > > One of the list members (no, not my editor) let me know of this thread,
> > so
> > > I
> > > > thought I might clear up a few things with a response. There's been some
> >
> > > > speculation regarding the origin of the method I describe in the book. I
> > > came
> > > > up with it on my own about ten years ago, without a literature search,
> > but
> > >
> > > > later learned that there was some fairly similar stuff out there in the
> > > > academic literature that long predated my entry into the field, so I
> > make
> > > no
> > > > particular claim to the method being hugely original. However, I believe
> > > that
> > > > the book is at least original as a *non-academic*, readable, detailed
> > > > description of the approach.
> > > ...
> > >
> > >
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