Re: Balance I/O

Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

> >Can one assume from this that you think that their Oracle offerings
> >leave something to be desired?

> Well they do, don't they?

Well, the one I bought, "Oracle SQL & CBO Internals" by Kimberly Floss, President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) no less, took one look at it, and brought it back to the shop (yeah, I know, but I had a book token burning a hole in my pocket and the shop was closing) and they changed it for Jonathan Lewis' book - phew! Lesson learnt, at least a glance at the reviews on Amazon before I purchase anything from now on.

I thought that she should have some notion, but the book was a mess, with stuff from 7 to 10 - I mean who wants to know about CBO from 1997? Even though some of the machines I log into still run 7, I'm not going to kill myself learing about it.

> Actually there is a book of Rampant on I/O.
> Do you think they mention mirroring and striping? SAME?
> Direct I/O? Asynchronous I/O? The various quick I/O products out
> there?
 

> Nothing of the sort.

I did see one by Mladen Gogala and he was tech editor on another - he seems to know his stuff - or is that not true either?

Maybe this will help us see clearly - from their site.

"Rampant is not motivated by profit. Because we put quality first, Rampant can offer world-class technical books at a fraction of the cost of other high-profit publishers."

I notice that Don Burleson's name seems prominent, and I know he's not flavour of the month around here, but there was another guy with an Indian (Arup Nanda?) name who's an ace (literally - top ranking poster) on the oracle forums - you'd think he'd have a clue?

Paul...

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