[GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Herouth Maoz
As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for improving my tuning skills. My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith, ISBN 184951030X

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread tv
As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for improving my tuning skills. My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith, ISBN 184951030X

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Jeff Ross
On 02/01/11 08:55, Herouth Maoz wrote: As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for improving my tuning skills. My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org wrote: I doubt you'll find a better book resource for recent versions of PostgreSQL.  Both are  well and clearly written, and cover a lot of ground in great detail. Greg Smith has helped me and countless others on this and the

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Chris Browne
hero...@unicell.co.il (Herouth Maoz) writes: As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for improving my tuning skills. My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Herouth Maoz hero...@unicell.co.il wrote: My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith, ISBN 184951030X http://amzn.com/184951030X highly recommended. Also take a look at the pg admin cookbook from packt. -- Sent

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Greg Smith
Herouth Maoz wrote: My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith, ISBN 184951030X http://amzn.com/184951030X That guy's a troublemaker, but I guess he writes OK. There are three customer reviews at

Re: [GENERAL] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 1 Feb 2011, at 21:15, Greg Smith wrote: Herouth Maoz wrote: My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith, ISBN 184951030X http://amzn.com/184951030X That guy's a troublemaker, but I guess he writes OK. It must be tough to be reminded

[GENERAL] Book recommendation

1999-02-12 Thread Simon Drabble
I'm looking for a really good book on SQL (not Postgres particularly) to include such arcanery as Triggers Stored procedures Query optimisation Examples illustrating these concepts will be a big bonus. Any recommendations? Si. -- Simon Drabble [EMAIL PROTECTED]