High Performance Oracle Database Applications: Performance and Tuning Techniques for Getting the Most from Your Oracle Database [Paperback]

Donald K. Burleson (Author)

Book Description

Series: High performance | Publication Date: November 15, 1996

Teaches how table design techniques can be used to maximize Oracle performance. Exposes the internal mechanisms of Oracle. Provides pretested performance scripts to get immediate performance information. Offers expert advice on interpreting Oracle performance information. Shows how to quickly implement performance and tuning data collection without buying expensive tools.

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About the Author

Donald Burleson (Raleigh, NC) has been a database administrator for over 15 years and has designed numerous data warehouse systems with Oracle. He is the author of several books about Oracle, including High Performance Oracle Database Applications and Oracle Databases on the Web, and over 30 articles in magazines such as DBMS, Oracle Magazine, and Computerworld.

Product Details

• Paperback: 486 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (November 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576101002
• ISBN-13: 978-1576101001
• Product Dimensions: 3.6 x 2.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,986,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful for DBA's and non-DBA's alike, May 17, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: High Performance Oracle Database Applications: Performance and Tuning Techniques for Getting the Most from Your Oracle Database (Paperback)

I was recently on a site where PowerBuilder reports were running very, very slowly (four hours and more). The SQL looked OK so I created some new, denormalized tables. Then I turned to Burleson's book for tuning Oracle as well as the one from O'Reilly. There was no DBA at this company and the books were a godsend. Burleson's is clear and you can easily pick out the parts that apply to your particular site. By the time I finished the reports ran in five minutes or less and this book was a real aid in getting that done

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book fopr Oracle tuning, December 31, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: High Performance Oracle Database Applications: Performance and Tuning Techniques for Getting the Most from Your Oracle Database (Paperback)

I spent hours looking at Oracle book, and this one was the easiest to understand and had the best tuning information. The CD-ROM was especially useful, and it had some tuning queries that allowed me to nearly double the speed of my application.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable overview, but more sophisticated scripts missing., September 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: High Performance Oracle Database Applications: Performance and Tuning Techniques for Getting the Most from Your Oracle Database (Paperback)

We were disappointed that the more sophisticated scripts alluded to in the text (those that would support 'high performance' in the title) were not included on the CD. We thought perhaps the missing scripts would be on the Coriolis web site, but the publisher's web site seems to indicate they no longer support the book. Therefore, this book is evidently obsolete.