Re: Book recommendations please?

Thanks to all for recommendations. At the end of the day, I ordered Johnathan, Steve and Richards books.

I decided to lay off Guy's for the moment, but will no doubt pick it up later.

"Steve Bell" <swayne.bell_at_sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:3AAF6663.A0EA8970_at_sympatico.ca...
> The 'DBA Handbook' by Loney et al is helpful to me.
>
> Steve
>
> andrew_webby at hotmail wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > As it's the end of the financial year, the Gods of accounting have given
 me
> > a few quid to spend on books. Can I get some recommendations on some
 good
> > material regarding high-performance/tuning etc for Oracle 8i (if some
 are
> > for specific platforms, it's SparcSol 7 in my case).
> >
> > My shortlist so far is:
> > Guy Harrisons "Oracle SQL-High Performance tuning"
> > Johnathan Lewis' "Practical Oracle 8i"
> > Steve Adams "Oracle 8I internal services for...."
> > and Rich Niemic "Oracle Performance Tuning, Tips and Techniques".
> >
> > All these get good peer reviews at Amazon (and of course, some names are
> > familiar straight away...)
> >
> > Criticisms of choice/new submissions gratefully accepted. Thanks in
 advance.
> >
> > Andrew
> > "Hurry young Simpson - there's learning afoot!"
>
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