"Offers hundreds of hints, tips, and tricks of the trade that can be useful to any DBA wanting to achieve maximum performance of Oracle applications. No Oracle library would be complete without this book." --Ken (Dr. DBA) Jacobs, Vice President of Product Strategy for Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation
"Rich is the first and last stop for Oracle Database technology and performance tuning. His knowledge is a vital tool that you need to successfully negotiate the waters of Oracle database development." --Mike Frey, Principal Architect, Navteq
This is, without no doubts, one of the best Oracle book I ever read! Very technical and full of advanced concepts. I have read this book a few years ago, and I'm really waiting for a new release! In the meantime, I had the pleasure to read other Rich's works. As a real Oracle internals fan, I cannot forget a document about Block internals: a real "tour" inside a Block dump. Only one word: AMAZING!