兩本值得期待的圖書以及其他 (轉)

兩本值得期待的圖書以及其他 (轉)[@[email protected]]

最近出來了2本ORACLE圖書，看了介紹，參考了一些評價，并閱讀了demo章節，感覺不錯，值得推薦。

第一本是：

Effective Oracle by Design

by Thomas Kyte

Paperback: 688 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.70

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media;

ISBN: 0072230657

此書是著名Oracle技術專家Tom的作品。Tom的上一本大作（ASP?id=6076">Oracle專家進階程式設計expert one-on-one）已經倍受讀者推崇,口碑很好。相對于expert one-on-one來說，這本書講述的是"this is what I think you should do"而不是"this is how is works",後者是expert one-on-one的主要内容。

這本Effective Oracle by Design的出版還有些小周折，本來是Tom談妥的是Wrox出版社，沒想到，天有不測風雲，Wrox的母公司破産，Tom隻好另找買家。

現在該書在Osborne的包裝下面世。可惜的是，相比較原來在Wrox要出版的版本而言，少了不少東西，讓人感到惋惜。本來Tom說要開放第一本expert one-on-one的電子版的，現在看起來是遙遙無期了。

在網絡上能找到此書的前三章，好不好，讀罷便知。

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第二本是O'Reilly的産品：

Optimizing Oracle Performance

by Cary V. Millsap, Jeff Holt

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates; (September 2003)

ISBN: 059600527X

這本書的作者也不是泛泛之輩，連Thomas Kyte 也說這本書的作者“有兩把刷子”。在出版社的站點上可以下載下傳到該書的第一章。“一種更好的優化方式”，開宗明義，首先提出"一種更好的優化方式“，這也是此書不同于一般優化類圖書的顯著的标志。讀後充滿期待。

還沒有機會能一睹為快，先看看O'Reilly對此書的描述：

Oracle dbas and developers are all too familiar with the outlay of time and resources, blown budgets, missed deadlines, and marginally effective performance fiddling that is commonplace with traditional methods of Oracle performance tuning. In this crucial book, Cary Millsap, former VP of Oracle's System Performance Group, clearly and concisely explains how to use Oracle's response time statistics to diagnose and repair performance problems. Cary also shows how "queueing theory" can be applied to response time statistics to predict the impact of upgrades and other system changes.

Optimizing Oracle Performance eliminates the time-consuming, trial-and-error guesswork inherent in most conventional approaches to tuning. You can deteRmine exactly where a system's performance problem is, and with equal importance, where it is not, in just a few minutes--even if the problem is several years old.

Optimizing Oracle Performance 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.

For example, the one thing database users care most about is response time. Naturally, DBAs focus much of their time and effort towards improving response time. But it is entirely too easy to spend hundreds of hours to improve important system metrics such as hit ratios, average latencies, and wait times, only to find users are unable to perceive the difference. And an expensive hardware upgrade may not help either.

It doesn't have to be that way. Technological advances have added impact, efficiency, measurability, predictive capacity, reliability, speed,and practicality to the science of Oracle performance optimization. Optimizing Oracle Performance shows you how to slash the frustration and expense associated with unraveling the true root cause of any type of performance problem, and reliably predict future performance.

發點牢騷：

國内的訂書管道太不通暢了，每當看到一些不錯的圖書而不能得的時候，心裡都很不痛快。

一些出版商總把眼睛盯住哪些UML／C#之類的圖書不放，無端端的錯過很多這樣的好書。再不就是炒名人，借助一些有名氣的譯者做文章，讀者真正想要的圖書往往不容易得到。

當然，現在也有一些影印版的圖書，不過在我看來，影印版圖書幾乎都是人家炒過的剩飯，什麼時候能來點新鮮的呢？國内的IT從業者希望得到快一些、“有滋有味”的的而不是經過二道作坊之後的東西。

我們隻能等待。

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