RE: books recommendations

2003-02-08 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sorry Steve. -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 4:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dennis - I didn't endorse the book, imply it was worth the cost or read it. I only replied to zhu chao's question about where it could be found. Steve - Original Mes

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-08 Thread Steve Perry
Dennis - I didn't endorse the book, imply it was worth the cost or read it. I only replied to zhu chao's question about where it could be found. Steve - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 11:38 AM > Steve

RE: books recommendations

2003-02-08 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Steve - The topic covered by the Ingram book didn't strike me as particularly interesting. A lot of these topics are covered in other books that have been published over the years. If they interest you, pick up some copies at a used book store and save some money ;-) In particular, years ago Ora

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-08 Thread Steve Perry
http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471224367,00.html - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:18 AM > Harvinder Singh, > Hi,Guy harrison's book is great. And do not forget to buy practical oracle8i by johnat

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-08 Thread chao_ping
Harvinder Singh, Hi,Guy harrison's book is great. And do not forget to buy practical oracle8i by johnathan lewis and expert one on one by tomas kyte. By the way, where to get the second book you mentioned? Regards zhu chao msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.happyit.net

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I'm looking forward to it. It should be fun. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ) UK___March 19th USA_(FL)_May 2nd Next Seminar dates: (see http://www.

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-04 Thread cjgait
Jonathan, Yes, please. I'd like the patch as well as the upgrade subscription path so I can paste '10' on as well. I'd also like installer insurance in case the patch hasn't been fully QA'd and breaks two things while fixing one. Seriously, I recommend the book because it explains a lot of fe

RE: books recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread Richard Ji
Where can I download the patch? :) -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 12:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay - The official line - Every now and again I think that maybe I could just produce a 9i supplement. But seriously, there isn't a hope.

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Okay - The official line - Every now and again I think that maybe I could just produce a 9i supplement. But seriously, there isn't a hope. After all, it might encourage Larry to bring forward the launch of Oracle 10. However, for a small fee, I can supply current owners of th

Re: books recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread Igor Neyman
You are correct. I asked Jonathan about 9i revision of the book (last fall at Ann Arbor OUG), and the answer was: he is not planning on it. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 0

RE: books recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread Grant Allen
> And of course Jonathan Lewis' Practical Oracle8i is another > must-have, though we > are all waiting for the 9i edition (nudge, nudge). I seem to remember Jonathan cursing the publisher for putting a version on the book - the vast bulk of the material being relevant for all of 8i and 9i. Howeve

RE: books recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread cjgait
There are a lot of good items on your list. Harrison is the definitive work on Oracle SQL tuning, though it is also worthwhile to pick up the O'Reilly pocket SQL tuning book as well. Robert Freeman's books are uniformly excellent. Geoff Ingram's book was a pleasure to read and contains a great d

RE: books recommendations

2003-01-30 Thread JayMiller
Very strong recommendation for the Guy Harrison book. It's pretty much *the* SQL tuning book. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are buying books for DBA group and developers . It will be great if u can provide ur feedba

RE: books recommendations

2003-01-30 Thread Harvinder Singh
http://www.ebooks.com/items/item-display.asp?IID=41070 http://www.wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?0-471-22436-7 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi harvinder Can you please point me to the High-Performance Oracle: Proven Meth

RE: books recommendations

2003-01-29 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
I forgot to ask you! Is it free download?? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi harvinder Can you please point me to the High-Performance Oracle: Proven Methods for Achieving Optimum Performance and Availability [DOWN

RE: books recommendations

2003-01-29 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Hi harvinder Can you please point me to the High-Performance Oracle: Proven Methods for Achieving Optimum Performance and Availability [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] by Geoff Ingram thanks in advance Banarasi Babu -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:49 AM To: Multiple re

RE: books recommendations

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Freeman
Thanks Joe! I also recommend Guy Harrison's book for tuning very highly. Probably one of the best SQL tuning books there is. I've not seen Geoff's book, so I have no comments about that one. Don's book I've scanned through but never really read. If it's as good as some of the other stuff I've seen

Re: books recommendations

2003-01-28 Thread Joe Testa
Both of Freeman's books I highly recommend. joe Harvinder Singh wrote: We are buying books for DBA group and developers . It will be great if u can provide ur feedback about following books: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition) by Guy Harrison High-Performance Oracle: Proven Meth

books recommendations

2003-01-28 Thread Harvinder Singh
We are buying books for DBA group and developers . It will be great if u can provide ur feedback about following books: Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning (2nd Edition) by Guy Harrison High-Performance Oracle: Proven Methods for Achieving Optimum Performance and Availability [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE RE