Book Review

July 23, 2012 Oracle Database Performance Tuning Test Cases without Many “Why”, “When”, and “How Much” Filler Details http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Database-Performance-Tuning-Cookbook/dp/184... (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) This blog article contains the review for the second half of the “Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook” book.  It has been nearly five months since I posted [...]

March 3, 2012 Oracle Database Performance Tuning Test Cases without Many “Why”, “When”, and “How Much” Filler Details http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Database-Performance-Tuning-Cookbook/dp/184... I ordered the “Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Cookbook” book shortly after it became available for purchase.  I was very curious to see how the book compared with the similarly titled “Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes” book, [...]

December 25, 2011 (Modified December 29, 2011) Digging Deeply into Oracle Internal Processing when the Oracle Wait Interface is Insufficient http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Core-Essential-Internals-Developers/dp/1430... I pre-ordered a paperback copy of this book three months ago from Amazon and also purchased a PDF copy of the book from Apress.  It was a long, nearly six year wait since the [...]

November 7, 2011 Most Thorough, Yet Compact Performance Tuning Book 9i-11g http://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooting-Oracle-Performance-Christian-Antog... (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) I originally reviewed the “Troubleshooting Oracle Performance” book a bit over three years ago, having pre-ordered the book prior to its publication.  The original review is quite limited in depth compared to some of my more [...]

October 6, 2011 Hammering a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Fine Edges are Lost, Gaps in Detail http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Database-Performance-Tuning-Recipes/dp/1430... (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) In an effort for my review to be fair, I have completed the review for the second half of the “Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes” book (omitting the pages for chapters [...]

September 10, 2011 Hammering a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Fine Edges are Lost, Gaps in Detail http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Database-Performance-Tuning-Recipes/dp/1430236620  (Forward to the Next Post in the Series) (Update September 14, 2011:  It is a bit unfair to this book that my review only covered the first six chapters and portions of chapter 7 – roughly the first [...]

August 23, 2011 The Ideal Guide for Beginning to Intermediate Oracle SQL: Providing the Logical Reasoning Behind the Approach to Understanding and Solving Data Access Challenges http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Oracle-SQL-Experts-Voice/dp/1430271973/ The “Beginning Oracle SQL” book is an updated version of the book “Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus” which covered Oracle release versions through 10.1.0.2.  The original version, while [...]

I decided to add a twist to my usual blogs - a book review, which I have not done before. I have been reading a book - Oracle Apex 4.0 Cookbook by Marcel van der Plas and Michel van Zoest and published by Packt, a UK based publisher. Michel is one of the first Apex Certified Experts in the world - a no small feat. It has been technically reviewed by a well known cast - Oracle ACE Director Dimitri Gielis, who also won Oracle Magazine's Apex Developer of the Year in '09; Maarten van Luijtelaar and Oracle ACE and frequent blogger Surachart Opun.