I also am not Cary .....
I have however read Cary's book
from cover to cover (including spending rather too long on a romantic weekend in
paris with my wife contemplating a 10046 trace parsing project :(). I Am
rereading and intend to require my fellow DBAs and sysadmins to read it. However
to attempt to answer your questions.
Yes it is different from every other
tuning book out there (though there is *some* overlap with Christpher Lawson's
'the art and science of oracle performance tuning'). The difference is exactly
in the approach - the central thesis of the book is (something like) that by
utilizing well specified and targeted extended sqltrace data for problem user
actions the Oracle performance analyst can quickly and efficiently resolve
Oracle performance problems that debilitate the business performance of Oracle
based systems. This approach - to target problem business processes, find out
why they run slowly and optimize them, is exactly what the RDBMS world needs
(IMO).
In addition the method Cary and Jeff describe predicts when it
will (and more importantly) won't be of use.
Is it more readable than
others? Here I do have some reservations. The first and last third of the book
are extremely readable, and the character and humour of the authors shines
through. The formal central section will put off some (maybe a significant
number) of readers though. Stephen Hawking in 'A Brief History of Time' writes
"Someone told me that each equation I put in the book would halve the sales. I
therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I
did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation E=mc�."
Cary and Jeff have either not been given this advice, or ignored it in the
interests of accuracy. The advantage that this gives is that the book has a
formal methodology that puts others to shame - the disadvantage is that folk
look at pages filled with equations full of queueing theory and Greek symbols
and react badly. I hope that the advice is wrong, but fear that it may not be.
Niall
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> Cary,
>
> I don't mean to ask you to
brag, but can you please tell me
> if your new book, of which I've heard
good things, is
> different in any way than other Oracle Performance
Tuning
> books out. Does it take a different approach? Does it
teach
> different methodologies? Is it more readable? I'd be very
>
interested in your own assessment. What did you try to
> accomplish with
this book?
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael Milligan
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