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RE: TOTOT: Fantastic reviews

From: Chris Stephens <ChrisStephens_at_Affina.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 07:51:24 -0500
Message-ID: <E07BCCA62696AB40BE1267A7419A281A2B5270@apollo.affina.net>


this thread had me thoroughly confused this morning. ...until i got that first cup of coffee...and worked my way backwards through the thread. now i believe i too will disappoint mogens buy ordering the book in spite of these nasty reviews.=20

i hope you lose money on it.

chris

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hostetter, Jay M Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:37 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: TOTOT: Fantastic reviews

I was looking for a humorous redneck chapter with a bunch of beer-belly photos. Or..wait..was that another author?

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:20 AM
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Subject: Re: TOTOT: Fantastic reviews

<review>
I'm highly disappointed in this book. These so-called experts merely use bluster and story-telling to mask their poor knowledge of database systems. For example, nowhere in the book do the authors backup their claims with reference to the well documented efficiency measures that are a standard part of every dbas toolkit.

There is also no coverage of the time-consuming but necessary maintenance steps that are needed to pro-actively manage your database system. For example index and tablespace management barely gets a mention.

Many of the stories focus on 'user satisfaction' and other trendy and vague management speak, rather than the detailed presentation of metrics and statistics. Indeed one of the authors airly dismisses the the metric based approach as 'compulsive tuning disorder' a clearer case of missing the point has not been seen for a long time. </review>

Is the book available in the UK yet?=3D3D20

Niall

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