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Review title: Oracle tuning?
Product review: This is wasting of time and money one of the worst book about tuning i ever read. If you want get good knowledge about CBO please look on this book written by Jonathan Lewis: Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals. The Oracle SQL Tuning & CBO Internals by Kimberly Floss is full of Oracle 10G Features with short descriptions which are worthless. And in the first section about CBO you can find few mistakes e.g. "Histograms are only effective when used on indexed columns whose data is not uniformly distributed". This book as others from rampant press have high price big letters and small value from the information point of view. I think this book should have name "Oracle 10g New and Old Features in 5 senteces each".
