Re: EXPLAIN PLAN (Quite long posting)

"Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA745BBFB_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> OK, so it wasn't quite that long a posting :o)
>
> I was answered by Connor and Ron Reidy (by private email) and the
> outcome was buy the book Oracle SQL High Performance Tuning (second
> edition) by Guy Harrison, published by Prentice Hall ISBN is
> 0-13-012381-1, and/or read the Oracle 9i docs. So I bought the book and
> I'm getting hold of the 9i docs even as I type.
[snip]
>
> Regards,
> Norman.
>
> PS. The intro to the book says 'this book is not for DBAs' I would have
> to differ on that, arn't we the ones who end up sorting out all that
> crap SQL statements eventually ?
>
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We are, but only after end-users and developers start complaining about the fact 'the Oracle database doesn't work'

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