Re: Book recommendations please?

andrew_webby at hotmail wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> As it's the end of the financial year, the Gods of accounting have given me
> a few quid to spend on books. Can I get some recommendations on some good
> material regarding high-performance/tuning etc for Oracle 8i (if some are
> for specific platforms, it's SparcSol 7 in my case).
>
> My shortlist so far is:
> Guy Harrisons "Oracle SQL-High Performance tuning"
> Johnathan Lewis' "Practical Oracle 8i"
> Steve Adams "Oracle 8I internal services for...."
> and Rich Niemic "Oracle Performance Tuning, Tips and Techniques".
>
> All these get good peer reviews at Amazon (and of course, some names are
> familiar straight away...)
>
> Criticisms of choice/new submissions gratefully accepted. Thanks in advance.
>
> Andrew
> "Hurry young Simpson - there's learning afoot!"

Make sure you get the updated 8i version of Guy H's book.

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