Re: Statspack Book Reference - Recommendation?

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http://www.statsviewer.narod.ru/

"Casi Schmid" <casimir.schmid_at_swisscom.com> wrote in message news:1043885238.771738_at_exnews...
> Dear all
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> I'm experiencing with Oracle Statspack on 8, 8i and 9i databases running
> under RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000
> Advanced Server.
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> Can you recommend me any good books about how to interpret the results
> getting from the StatsPack reports as well as from the html-output from
> www.oraperf.com? I'd like to use a tool like StatsPack to get fast results
> with tuning - I do not have enough time to go deep into the rdbms.
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> I quick found these...
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> Oracle High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK by Donald Keith Burleson,
> Don Burleson
> Paperback: 674 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.60 x 9.14 x 7.42
> Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; ; (April 20, 2001)
> ISBN: 0072133783
>
> --> seems to be old
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> Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK
> by Donald K. Burleson, Don Burleson
> Paperback: 645 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.62 x 9.12 x 7.40
> Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; ; (March 22, 2002)
> ISBN: 007222360X
>
> --> seems to be the second edtition of the one above, does it also cover 8
> and 8i?
>
>
> Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition)
> by Guy Harrison
> Paperback: 656 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.80 x 9.18 x 6.98
> Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; ; 2nd edition (December 29, 2000)
> ISBN: 0130123811
>
> --> seems to be good (amazon user reviews), does it also cover StatsPack?
>
>
> Oracle Performance Tuning (Nutshell Handbook) [BARGAIN PRICE]
> by Mark Gurry, Peter Corrigan
> Paperback: 964 pages
> Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates; ; 2nd edition (November 1996)
> ISBN: B00007FYAO
>
> --> Oreilly normally stands for quality, but this is rather old - covering
> 9i or just 8 and 8i? What about StatsPack?
>
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> Oracle Performance Tuning 101
> by Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha, Kirtikumar Deshpande, Jr. John A. Kostelac
> Paperback: 404 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.17 x 9.18 x 7.42
> Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; ; (May 29, 2001)
> ISBN: 0072131454
>
> --> again, does it also cover StatsPack?
>
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> Oracle Performance Tuning Tips and Techniques
> by Richard J. Niemiec, Joe Trezzo, Rich Niemiec, Bradley D. Brown, Joseph
C.
> Trezzo
> Paperback: 894 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.21 x 9.12 x 7.41
> Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; ; (April 1, 1999)
> ISBN: 0078824346
>
> --> again, does it also cover StatsPack?
>
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> Oracle8i and Unix Performance Tuning
> by Ahmed Alomari
> Paperback: 448 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x 9.28 x 7.03
> Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; ; 1st edition (September 15, 2000)
> ISBN: 0130187062
>
> --> optimal for Unix? which distribution? Linux too?
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> Oracle9i Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques
> by Rich Niemiec, Richard J. Niemiec, Bradley D. Brown, Raymond J. Lane
> Paperback: 750 pages
> Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; ; (April 18, 2003)
> ISBN: 0072224738
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> --> Tuning in general - additional book to a good StatsPack book?
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> I found also this article, what is your opinion about it?
> http://www.dba-oracle.com/review_hp_tuning_statspack.htm
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> thanks in advance for your replies
>
> Casi Schmid
> Oracle DBA - Swisscom Switzerland
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