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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: new sql tuning book - Author's response
Thanks, Jared, now if I can just get as much interest from the rest of the list
in buying the book as there obviously is for that 50-page paper that Mogens
referenced;-)
Dan Tow
dantow_at_singingsql.com
650-858-1557
www.singingsql.com
We make SQL sing!
Quoting Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com>:
> Thanks for chiming in here Dan.
>
> Now I'm really looking forward to this book.
>
> As it so happens, I have this one really nasty
> query that just takes way too long...
>
> Jared
>
> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:02, Dan Tow wrote:
> > Hi, this is Dan Tow, the author of SQL Tuning, wading in with a few
> remarks:
> >
> > One of the list members (no, not my editor) let me know of this thread, so
> I
> > thought I might clear up a few things with a response. There's been some
> > speculation regarding the origin of the method I describe in the book. I
> came
> > up with it on my own about ten years ago, without a literature search, but
>
> > later learned that there was some fairly similar stuff out there in the
> > academic literature that long predated my entry into the field, so I make
> no
> > particular claim to the method being hugely original. However, I believe
> that
> > the book is at least original as a *non-academic*, readable, detailed
> > description of the approach.
> ...
>
>
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