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RE: new sql tuning book - Author's response

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:27:37 -0500
Message-ID: <DE8A21F8F1D0254EA4A9214D52AB2FEDAD58CA@exchsen0a1ma>


ain't email *great*? :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Tow [mailto:dantow_at_singingsql.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:15 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: new sql tuning book - Author's response

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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