Press Release
September 18, 2003
"Optimizing Oracle Performance": Dispel the Curse of Poor Oracle Performance
Sebastopol, CA--Harry Potter, a wildly popular wizard created by J. K.
Rowling, spends his fictional life studying sorcery at the Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In his third year, his best friend,
Hermione Granger, enlists the use of magic to add to her already heavy
academic load. With the blessing of the deputy headmistress, Hermione
employs the Time-Turner, a charmed necklace that allows her to hop back
through time in order to take two classes at once. While her scholastic
endeavors prove to be a bit more taxing than she anticipated, the
Time-Turner is instrumental to the climax of the story: Hermione and
Harry use it to right some terrible wrongs, saving the day once again.
Thankfully, you don't need magical accoutrements or special wizard
training to get the most out of your Oracle database--that includes
fixing some horrible inefficiencies that have been cowering within the
system for years. The methodology for recovering swift, finely honed
Oracle response time is contained within the pages of Optimizing
Oracle Performance (O'Reilly, US $34.95), authored by renowned Oracle
scientists Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt. Their book cuts a path through
the complexity of current tuning methods, and streamlines an approach
that focuses on optimization techniques that any DBA can use quickly
and successfully to make noticeable--even dramatic--improvements.
"A significant cultural change is taking place in the Oracle
performance management community," contends coauthor Millsap, "I view
this book as an important step in Oracle performance revolution." Armed
with a background in mathematics, computer science, and business
administration, as well as years of service as vice president of a
large performance group within Oracle Corporation, Millsap is
unflinching in his parsing of the problems. "Businesses waste enormous
amounts of time and money because the industry-standard 'Oracle
performance tuning' methods don't work. With this book, I hope to nudge
the revolution from 'tuning' (sloppy, inefficient, component-level
trial-and-error fiddling) to 'optimizing' (scientific, repeatable,
efficient method that maximizes a system's economic value)."
Oracle DBAs and developers are all too familiar with the outlay of time
and resources, blown budgets, missed deadlines, and marginally
effective performance noodling that is commonplace with traditional
methods of Oracle performance tuning. This crucial book clearly and
concisely explains how to use Oracle's response time statistics to
diagnose and repair performance problems, and shows how "queuing
theory" can be applied to response time statistics to predict the
impact of upgrades and other system changes. Most of the features
described within the book are virtually independent of operating
system, and most work equally well in Oracle releases from 7.0.12
through 9.2.0.
"Optimizing Oracle Performance" is not a book of tips and tricks. It is
a book dedicated to removing performance pain quickly and completely,
by changing the mindset about performance and focusing on diagnosis.
Its goal is not to make any one system faster, but to make you faster
and more efficient at optimizing any system. Millsap and Holt break
down the steps to reach this goal into three parts, plus an Appendixes
section:
Part I, "Method," is about targeting. Written in an easy-to-digest
style, it educates anyone who is responsible for system performance
optimization, from database and system administrators to information
systems department leadership Part II, "Reference," is for the serious technician who will go
hands-on with Oracle, providing complete details on how to implement
the advice presented in Part I Part III, "Deployment," is for both technicians and project sponsors,
covering the issues of how to complete the job for maximal positive
impact. It includes a case studies section
Continues Millsap, "It's hard to believe how many long-time performance
mysteries can be diagnosed in just a few minutes. The really fun cases
occur when you can quickly show a CIO why the investments he's made
into consulting and hardware upgrades didn't make progress against the
problem."
Using "Optimizing Oracle Performance," you'll find that becoming an
Oracle hero doesn't require you to be in two places at once. This
detailed, field-tested practitioners' guide shows you how to slash the
time, frustration, and expense associated with unraveling the true root
cause of any type of performance problem, and how to reliably predict
future performance. You'll get such enchanted--er, enchanting--results
with "Optimizing Oracle Performance" that your boss might think you
have more than a mere book up your sleeve.
Advance Praise for "Optimizing Oracle Performance":
"This book is fantastic. Those who read it will be kings for the next
few years."
--Mogens Norgaard, Miracle A/S
Additional Resources:
Optimizing Oracle Performance
Cary Millsap with Jeff Holt
ISBN 0-596-00527-X, 388 pages, $34.95 US, $54.95 CA, 24.95 UK
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