Oracle Wait Interface. A Practical Guide to Performance Diagnostics & Tuning Osborne ORACLE Press Series

Customer Reviews

Oracle Wait interface

2007-10-17
Excellent condition.
Its as good as new - though i paid second hand prices for it :)

Excellent examples - easy to understand and use

2007-03-08
I read the book and was immediately able to get to the root causes of a slow running Oracle database. Very well organized.

Skillful Oracle book!

2007-01-03
The way in which the concepts are explained by the authors is Skillful.
Tired of reading obscure explanations about latches?
If so, read this book to learn it.
The authors were able to explain what Oracle latches are and how they work.
It's the only one book you need to understand how Oracle wait events should be used as a tuning tool.
It's a "definitive guide!"

Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan are the Best Authors !

2006-11-10
I loved this book and it has helped me many many times to reduce the contention in database , thus by improving the performance by 100% to 150%...

With this book, I was actually able to implement the concepts, whereas other books I read , were more derived from oracle manuals.

Thanks to Kirtikumar Deshpande, K. Gopalakrishnan for this book,

If you need to tune the database, this is the book for you.

Bye Bye Cache Hit Ratio

2006-07-29
This is one of my favorite books. It gives easy to understand descriptions and examples. It is a must have for tuning. It is nicely organized and highly useful in a "crisis" situation.

Hats off to Kirti & Richmond and to the editors I don't have to remember everything 'cept where I put this book.

OWI Gold Mine !!

2006-06-06
Troubleshoot, tune, and optimize your Oracle database efficiently and successfully every time. This book explains how to take full advantage of the revolutionary Oracle Wait Interface to quickly pinpoint--and solve--core problems and bottlenecks, and increase productivity exponentially.

Amazing Oracle performance book !

2006-01-17
I bought this book in order to improve my skills in performance tuning and I have to say that it exceeds my expectations. All Oracle events are described with their common causes and actions to take in order to reduce them... Great work... So a big thank for that book which will make every DBA a much better one !

Also, I would like to thank you the Author (K. Deshpande) on replying for my queries...

Regards,

L.

Not enough on improving performance

2005-10-13
This book provides plenty of suggestions on how to determine the bottlenecks of Oracle database performance. What the book lacks is suggestions on how to cure those bottlenecks. Sure, there are examples, but am I supposed to understand Oracle performance tuning through examples?

The book would have been 100% better if it had concentrated on indexing. After all, better indexing is by far the quickest and best way to improve query performance.

The book's information on Wait statistics is worth its weight in gold. Overall, the authors are highly knowledgeable and has highly granular knowledge of Oracle.

OWI: An excellent reference and a must-read book for Oracle DBAs

2005-07-14
The authors of this book have done an excellent job in exposing invaluable information on Oracle wait Interface. Particularly, they targeted the most important waits that one must pay attention to while dealing with Oracle performance issues. This is one of a kind book available out there. For those who are just getting exposed to the myths of OWI must read it from cover to cover. A book like this should be part of all serious DBAs reference collection.

Excellent Book

2005-05-03
Hi,

My Heartiest Congratulations to the Authors of the Book for an Excellent Book.

I am in Performance Tuning since last few years and have never come across such a wonderful book which is complete in itself and needs no additional reference to other book or documents.

The Book also exposes to much informative and required x$ views boldly. For many years, I have been interacting with many Oracle Executives and each of one claimed that using x$ is not advisable and it can hamper performance and blah blah blah.... But the author boldly said that these are misconceptions and have boldly demonstrated the use of these throughout the book.

I would also appreciate the promptness of the Author (K. Gopal) on replying for my queries raised during reading of this book.

Congrats again.
Thanks
Vivek Sharma