Re: Practical Oracle 8i by Jonathan Lewis?

I read his book too, I think it's excellent.

There is a little comment I disagreed with in there though, he states that more slower CPUs is better than a few fast ones. My take on this is that it's better to have fewer, fast CPUs than more slower ones. My servers don't have more than a handful of active sessions at a time, though -- maybe that explains why I differ on this point. Also my servers only have 2 CPUs at best, he may have been talking about 5+ CPU machines.

I liked the fact that he didn't just re-hash stuff you can find in the Oracle-supplied manuals. Very refreshing, I wish more people would write Oracle books like this one.

Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Oracle DBA
Halifax, Canada

steveee_ca_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Jonathan's website is
>
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/
>
> Very helpful place to hang out in my opinion :)
>
> Steve
>
> In article <3A87655D.20B1B810_at_earthlink.net>,
> david spaisman <davedba._at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have almost finished reading the Jonathan Lewis book. Great book! I
> > have learned a lot about Oracle 8i and Oracal in general.
> >
> > I would like to know:
> >
> > 1) Aside from the publishing site, is there anywhere I can find an
> > addendum or revisions to material in the book?
> >
> > 2) The scripts from the book?(the same for Heidi Thorpes's book on
> > Oracle tuning).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > David Spaisman
> >
> >
>
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Received on Mon Mar 05 2001 - 19:15:38 CST