Re: Oracle7 performance & tuning

R.A. van Geleuken (roald_at_xs4all.nl) wrote:
: Russell Harrison wrote:
: >
: > Srinivas Kopparapu wrote:
: > >
: > > Hi,
: > >
: > > I am new to ORACLE DBA role. I have been thru' ORACLE DBA
: > > course. Could someone give some guidelines/tips/starting points
: > > for investigating and tuning oracle performance and tuning of
: > > any parameters in init.ora or something.
: > >
: > > Any info will be greatly appreciated.
: > >
: > > TIA
: > >
: > > Sri
: >
: > There is an excellent book by Peter Corrigan and Mark Gurry, called
: > 'Oracle Performance Tuning', published by O'Reilly etc (1993, 1994).
: > McGills here in Melbourne has a few copies on the shelf.
: >
: > It goes into all sorts of gory detail about how to tune databases.
: >
: > Cheers,
: > Russell
 

: Being from 1993/1994, is this book up to date with respect to
: Oracle 7, or is it a general book on tuning a database?

I heard from the guys themselves at the VOUG conference 2 weeks ago that they are rewriting the entire book and it should be ready for the market end of this year or early next year. New book will certainly cover oracle 7.

Leng.

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