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Re: Scaling Oracle 8i

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.nospam.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:59:22 GMT
Message-ID: <KqNNc.20686$K53.8040@news-server.bigpond.net.au>


"Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:ce86dr$73e$1_at_titan.btinternet.com...
>
>
> James Morle has just put his book
>
> Scaling Oracle 8i,
> Building Highly Scalable OLTP System Architectures
> (published by A-W)
>
> on to his website in pdf and html form under
> a 'Creative Commons' licence.
>
> If you haven't seen this book, you should. One clue
> about its value is the list of 'customers also bought'
> on Amazon, viz:
> Oracle8i Internal Services for Waits, Latches, Locks, and Memory
by
> Steve Adams
> Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases by Jonathan
Lewis
> Optimizing Oracle Performance by Cary V. Millsap, Jeff Holt
> Expert One-on-One Oracle by Thomas Kyte
> Effective Oracle by Design (Osborne ORACLE Press Series) by Thomas
> Kyte
>
> It's one of the few really good books about getting
> the best out of Oracle. The fact that the title mentions
> 8i is irrelevant - most of the information is generic.
>

Hi Jonathan,

Can you believe that someone would put the database version in the title of their book ;)

They're all excellent books and it kinda goes towards a theory I have in relation to Oracle books. If the author has written just one or two Oracle books, there's a good chance they'll be one of those few good Oracle books out there. If they've written substantially more than that, the odds drop remarkably with the odds being directly exponentially proportional to the books written !!

In a way I'm hoping Tom won't write any more solo books else it'll ruin this theory I've spent ages formulising :)

Cheers

Richard Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 07:59:22 CDT

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