Re: Book Review: "SQL Tuning" by Dan Tow

Clinging to sanity, "Ryan" <rgaffuri_at_cox.net> mumbled into her beard:
> so do you recommend the book? It really intrigues me. It seems remarkably
> different from other SQL tuning books.

I did a browse of it the other day; seems rather interesting...

Certainly rather different from the usual formulaic works that show

how to pursue particular query plans for {FooDBMS version 7.3}.  I
like the notion that he presents of "robust query plans," e.g. - plans
that will behave well even if the size of the table changes.

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