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Re: Excellent new book

From: George Barbour <gbarbour_at_csc.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:06:19 +0100
Message-ID: <3b5fcce7$1@pull.gecm.com>

Totally agree.
I also like Oracle High-Performance Tuning with Statspack.Oracle Press.  Even though Oracle changed the name of the stats scripts after Don Burleson finished his book.
George Barbour.
"Van Messner" <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in message news:ErB77.14$9d.4397_at_newshog.newsread.com...
> If you frequent these Oracle newsgroups you know Thomas Kyte is the
 guy
> who always has the right answer. He not only gives you the information but
> usually attempts to show you, with an example, how you might solve the
> problem yourself the next time. He never puts anyone down, never rants
> about how the information was probably in some manual, and never indicates
> you might have been better off heading down the career track for shepherd
> rather than DBA.
>
> So I doubt he's going to brag about his new book, which I picked up
> yesterday. You've got to get a copy - it's outstanding. I looked up two
 or
> three problems that had been bothering me recently and found answers (and
> examples) for all of them. The title is expert one-on-one Oracle and the
> ISBN is 1-861004-82-6.
>
> And while you're at it add a copy of Jonathan Lewis' advanced Oracle
> book "Practical Oracle 8i" ISBN 0-201-71584-8
>
> Van
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 26 2001 - 03:06:19 CDT

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