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Review title: Not for experienced DBA either !!!
Product review: I fully agree with the reader from BC, Canada and totally disagree with reader from White Plains, NY. By covering versions from as far back as 7.3, this book is a hodge podge of different versions. There are lot of page filling techniques in addition to listing all those parameters and events. Writesdisproportionate amount of pages for trivial matters like rowsize calculation or syntaxes and loses focus on main topic. In performance tuning section, dealing with multiple versions creates a total mess and you ending up reading about suggestions & parameters that are obsolete. In Database internals tuning chapter, he lists 8 pages of stapacks report (from a lightly used database!!) and doesn't even bother to discuss its different sections. Book does not explain object related topics well. Quality of examples is very poor. I was totally disappointed. Don't buy this book.
