The book is 900 pages (contrary to what's on Amazon). Includes the following
in the table of contents:
Chapter 1 Over A Decade of Tuning Experience...summary all chapters
Chapter 2 Basic Index Principles
Chapter 3 Disk I/O and Fragmentation
Chapter 4 Tuning the init.ora
Chapter 5 Enterprise Manager and Tuning Pack
Chapter 6 Using EXPLAIN PLAN, TRACE, and TKPROF
Chapter 7 Basic Hint Syntax
Chapter 8 Query Tuning
Chapter 9 Table Joins and Other Advance Query Tuning
Chapter 10 Using PL/SQL to Enhance Performance
Chapter 11 Using Parallel Feature to Improve Performance
Chapter 12 Oracle8 New Feature Example
Chapter 13 Oracle8 and 8I New Tips
Chapter 14 The v$ Views
Chapter 15 The x$ Tables
Chapter 16 Using and Interpreting ULTESTAT/ULTBSTAT
Chapter 17 Performing a Quick System Review
Chapter 18 Monitor the System Using UNIX Utilities
Appendix A All documented and undocumented init.ora's
Appendix B All V7 & V8 V$ views
Appendix C All V7 & V8 x$ tables
Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 09:12:51 CDT
