Re: Good sources for Oracle tunig

I still think Chris's book is good for basic beginning how-to-be-a-DBA work. http://www.oraclemagician.com/

All those others Daniel mentioned are excellent, too, but not necessarily newbie oriented. I _would_ suggest buying all of them, if you are serious. Either go wild at Amazon or join a club.

http://www.dbaoracle.net/readme-cdos.htm

And if you haven't already, see the Concepts manual at tahiti.oracle.com, and the performance books there too.

metalink.oracle.com also has lots of cookbook-style notes, which can be good, but can also be very bad. You should become conversant with metalink, so when you need support, you can quickly get past the part where you and the analyst need to "get on the same page."

dizwell.com seems to be in a growth mode, ixora.com.au is classic for in-depth questions, http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ .

jg

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