Re: Good book on Oracle SQL tuning

From: Mark D Powell <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com>
Date: 25 Apr 2005 09:41:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1114447316.391237.18450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

I haven't read either of the books listed by ianal_vista but SQL Tuning by Dan Tow is interesting. It is an attempt at creating a mathematical (graphical) methology for tuning queries that should work for SQL using any relational database manager.

I have some disagreement with some of the points in the book but I recognize a lot of merit in it also. The book does not teach SQL and in fact very little SQL appears in the book. Rather the book talks about the method. This book is probably best suited for people who have already read a book on tuning or made a fair number of attempts at tuning and feel the approaches they have tried are not working well enough.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 11:41:56 CDT