I've also picked up my copy yesterday but ...I'm assuming everyone else has
theirs by now and
are busily reading. ...  I still not have finished Tom Kite Expert one on
one....


Stephane Paquette
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DENNIS WILLIAMS
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I picked my copy up last night from my local Borders bookstore. They even
had a copy for the shelf. I'm assuming everyone else has theirs by now and
are busily reading. Please post any comments or observations. Leave it to
Cary to put exercises at the end of each chapter. A quick flip through makes
me want to abandon study for my last OCP exam.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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RE: Re: Cary's book -- Out of stock !Hi!

> Figure 9-14 shows an interesting situation in which a single fast CPU
> out-performs a system with 4 slower CPUs, for a certain condition;
> this is exactly the situation I am facing while testing the move of a DB
> (9.0.1.3.0) from a 2-processor (600 MHz) to a 4-processor (400 MHz)
> box and have been puzzling over reduced performance, even after playing
> with different degrees of parallel query and having twice as much memory
> for the DB on the 4-processor box

Btw, that's one of the reasons why I suggest my clients to turn off
Hyperthreading for their new Intel boxes.
HT basically makes your CPU to 2 over 50% slower CPUs, providing that all
your virtual CPUs will be loaded and you are using the same types of CPU
instructions in all of your processes (I doubt that you are using MMX, SSE
or even FPU that much with your Oracle database).

Situation gets especially bad with parallel execution where Oracle thinks it
has 4 physical processors whilst you actually got 2 for example.

Tanel.



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