Cary Millsap's Optimizing Oracle Performance

Is not for the faint of heart. My Lord, I am just in over my head with trying to understand chapter 9. It's just too overwhelming to grasp on the initial read.

Am I the only one that feels this way? I mean, you have a to be a master of Quantitative Theory to understand some of that stuff.

I am really curious as to if all you masters of Performance Tuning really use all of the theories he covers. I guess they would become second nature, but it just seems overwhelming.

I do appreciate the wealth of information in the book though, it has educated me further in the complexity of performance tuning and how much I don't think that I'll ever be able to fully understand the concepts behind it. Thank you Mr. Millsap. I'm hoping that there is a chapter 9.b that will say, "Just kidding, all you really have to do is this...." Received on Wed Sep 13 2006 - 15:30:41 CDT