RE: OTTOTOT: Fantastic reviews

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:36:32 -0400
Message-ID: <DE8A21F8F1D0254EA4A9214D52AB2FED11F2C01F@exchsen0a1ma>

I just ordered the Oak Table, Oracle Wait Interface and 10G New Features (Mr. Freeman's book).
Thanks to all of the authors who work so hard to put these books together for those of us who do not have the time or skills to do all of this leg-work!!!!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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From: Michael Thomas [mailto:mhthomas_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:05 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: OTTOTOT: Fantastic reviews

Hi,

I'm very much looking forward to getting OITOTOT book because I value the *methodology* provided by the OakTable authors.

Wish someone would post if they got it yet from Bookpool. :-)

• Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  >
  > On 08/02/2004 02:08:04 AM, Mogens N?rgaard wrote:
  > > Yep, Mladen, the intention is to Go Local
  >
  > Congrats, Mogens. My copy of the furniture book is
  > on order, scheduled to
  > arrive this week. I read the "Wait Interface" by
  > Kirti and Gopal, and it will
  > be very, very hard to top that. Given the fact that
  > they are discussing version
  > 10g, it stantds next to Jonathan's and Cary's books.
  ...

As I've stated earlier, I believe the OWI book is mandatory study for DBAs regarding wait interface (through 10g) tuning efforts. There are hundreds of points made in the book which I can use (once I've tested them of course). ;-)

<OFF TOPIC to anyone who has already read the OWI book>:

But, I have issues (editing and methodology) with the OWI book that I did not have with the other two books Mladen mentions.

I'll give what I believe to be a quick OWI example of an editing error. It is deep in the book, therefore assuming someone has read the whole OWI book, and on pg 201 regarding transactions:

"Introducing additional commits can create other problems, among them, the infamous ORA-01555: snapshot too old error because the rollback (or undo) data can be overwritten".

Please read the whole section in context. In my opinion the sentence implies that 'shorter' transactions are causing ORA-01555 errors. My belief is that more commits implies 'shorter' transactions. Or, the converse, am I reading that if I make my transactions 'longer' (fewer commits) then there should be fewer ORA-01555 errors. Please enlighten me if I'm missing an obvious point, but I don't get the point of this sentence. The remainder of the paragraph is fine.

Further discussions of OWI probably deserves their own thread, rather than hijaak OITOTOT.
</OFF TOPIC>

Regards,

Mike Thomas                 

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