Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals [Paperback]

Jonathan Lewis is one of the world's foremost authorities in this field (he is frequently quoted and reference by other leading experts, such as Tom Kyte  see for example http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/download_file?p_file=3067171813508366601

Book will be strongly co-promoted with Tom Kyte's Expert Oracle Database Architecture (1-59059-530-0)

Highlights traps for those migrating from Oracle 8i to 9i to 10g, potentially averting often disastrous performance issues and downtime (=lost revenue)

The first comprehensive book written to investigate, describe, and demonstrate the methods used by the Cost Based Optimizer

Jonathan is one of very few Oracle authors to maintain online enhancements, errata and addenda pages, so the reader will be supported long after the book is published

Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  I believe that observation to be entirely accurate. Someone else later observed that any technologist with sufficient knowledge is indistinguishable from a magician.  With that in mind, what you have in your hands right now is a book on magic. However, for as long as Ive known the author of this book, Jonathan Lewis (some 11 years according to my research on Google going back over the newsgroup archives), he has never been content to accept magic.  He wants to know why something happens the way it does. So, fundamentally, his book is all about understanding: understand v. understood, (-std) understanding, understands 1. To perceive and comprehend the nature and significance of 2. To know thoroughly by close contact ls+