Re: Cary Millsap's Optimizing Oracle Performance

"Ben" <balvey_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:1158179441.537404.176800_at_m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> Is not for the faint of heart. My Lord, I am just in over my head with
> trying to understand chapter 9. It's just too overwhelming to grasp on
> the initial read.
>
> Am I the only one that feels this way? I mean, you have a to be a
> master of Quantitative Theory to understand some of that stuff.
>
> I am really curious as to if all you masters of Performance Tuning
> really use all of the theories he covers. I guess they would become
> second nature, but it just seems overwhelming.
>
> I do appreciate the wealth of information in the book though, it has
> educated me further in the complexity of performance tuning and how
> much I don't think that I'll ever be able to fully understand the
> concepts behind it. Thank you Mr. Millsap. I'm hoping that there is a
> chapter 9.b that will say, "Just kidding, all you really have to do is
> this...."
>

All you have to do is take your crystal ball and look for the silver bullet ;-)

Oh, and don't forget to set optimizer_index_cost_adj to 25 :-) Received on Wed Sep 13 2006 - 16:04:37 CDT