Re: BUFFER BUSY WAITS

From: Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:41:21 GMT
Message-ID: <3C75E88D.6090408@home.com>

Ricky Sanchez wrote:

> Connor McDonald wrote:
>

>>
>>I did not rate the book highly - but the man *did* sit down and put pen
>>to paper which was more than most of us (including myself) have done.
>>So I don't think its appropriate to launch a tirade upon him.
>>
>>hth
>>connor
>>--
>>

>
> If you have read the book, or any of his articles on performance tuning
> - and know something of the subject yourself - you would have to agree
> he says idiotic things. Like, the answer to all shared pool latch
> contention is to increase the size of the shared pool until the problem
> goes away. Just dumb crap from someone who clearly knows little of
> Oracle internals. Not just dumb, but dangerous.
>
> So, when such a person endeavours to write a book on the subject-
> indeed, assumes a role of leadership in the Oracle community - he owes
> it to himself and the community to get it right. Niemic does not get it
> right. The fact that he bothered to publish his crap affords him no
> credit at all, only further discredit. To blatantly mislead is worse
> than doing nothing at all.
>
> Calling him an idiot is hardly launching a tirade. Besides, he *is* an
> idiot.
>
> - ricky
>

If you're in the greater New York area, tune in on 21 March 2002 for "War of the tuning methodologies" as Rich Niemic and Gaja Vaidyanatha square off at Columbia university. tickets are $35 at the door.

Seriously - http://www.nyoug.org/events.htm Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 00:41:21 CST