Dispel the Curse of Poor Oracle Performance

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Thankfully, you don't need magical accoutrements or special wizard training to get the most out of your Oracle database--that includes fixing some horrible inefficiencies that have been cowering within the system for years. The methodology for recovering swift, finely honed Oracle response time is contained within the pages of "Optimizing Oracle Performance" (O'Reilly, US $34.95), authored by renowned Oracle scientists Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt. Their book cuts a path through the complexity of current tuning methods, and streamlines an approach that focuses on optimization techniques that any DBA can use quickly and successfully to make noticeable--even dramatic--improvements.

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