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Title: Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK by Donald K. Burleson, Don Burleson ISBN: 0-07-222360-X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 22 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good, but a little misleading
Comment: The book is pretty good, it covers some basic topics on implementing STATSPACK and using it for monitoring Oracle. However, it was a little misleading and not too much organized sometimes.
The best:
- Straight, practical and full of scripts/examples
- Gives some tips and explains some Oracle performance issues
- Covers not only database, but network and OS common performance problems (directed to Unix)
- Covers not only 9i, but previous versions too.
- Gives a good guideline on proactive tuning.
The worst:
- It's misleading sometimes. The book covers different Oracle versions, but not always we know if an example applies only to 9i or previous versions. May cause confusion on beginners/intermediate DBA's who hadn't contact with previous Oracle versions
- Some typos and errors on the scripts and the text (9i uses PCTFREE even on Automatic segment management)
- I was expecting a deeper explanation on STATSPACK tables. The book relies only on a few (the most important, ok, but it's not everything). I missed a better approach on other performance issues like checkpointing, log switches, latches and waits in general.
Finally, it is a very good book and worthy buying, but could be even better.
Rating: 2
Summary: don't be deceived
Comment: the bad:
1. no mention of Windows anywhere. only covers UNIX, no mention of this in the blurbs
2. Oracle 8i (and even 8.05!) take up more pages than 9i. It's rarely clear where 9i info starts. An obvious copy+paste job from previous editions. And this despite the title of the book.
3. the author spews scripts everywhere. there should be a table of contents for the scripts. it's practically impossible to figure out what scripts there are and what they do. Possibly really lazy or inexperienced DBAs would be interested in all these scripts but most dbas will probably live without them.
4. author promises to provide "extensions" to statspack tables for trend analysis and he makes it sound like he will present a clever way to store snapshot data between reboots the way Capacity Planner does, but it turns out all that all he demonstrates is how to create tables for data collected by UNIX operating system utilities. It is a very misleading description.
the good:
1. decent explanations of basic tuning concepts. But again this is copy+pasted straight from a tuning book. I bought this book for info about statspack not tuning 101!
2. decent diagrams of statspack tables but nothing that can't be found on metalink.
I returned this book. It's shovel-ware, plain and simple. The author worked very hard to bloat the size up to 600+ pages to rationalize a $40+ price tag for the publisher. How can he take himself seriously? Or i wonder if the author actually believes this is a well-organized book to be proud of...in which case his mind must be like a tangle of knotted strings.
Rating: 5
Summary: great book for intermediate/advanced DBA
Comment: One of the very very good books I ever read in Oracle. Well thought/written in a manner that is easy to absorb.
Could see new ideas, new ways of thinking/implementing. Could recommend to intermediate/advanced DBA as a tuning/statspack bible.
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Title: Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery by Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart ISBN: 0072226625 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Oracle9i Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques by Richard J. Niemiec ISBN: 0072224738 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 12 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook by Donald K. Burleson, Don Burleson ISBN: 0072223049 Publisher: Osborne Distributed Product Pub. Date: 16 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Oracle9i DBA Handbook by Kevin Loney, Marlene Theriault ISBN: 0072193743 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 28 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Optimizing Oracle Performance by Cary Millsap ISBN: 059600527X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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