Less practical example and heavy marketing attitude , if compare to other reference on oracle performance titile, other than tuning 101 (it's dummy).

The subject of Oracle Wait Tuning (OWT) is gaining popularity among more and more DBAs. This book takes the subject of OWT and presents it in a clear and easy manner. By removing the mystery and mystic and presenting the techniques you can learn without being buried in all the details. Note that this book does point you in the right direction when you need more detail. I suggest "Optimizing Oracle Performance" by Cary Millsap for deep detailed information. The Oracle Wait Interface book from Oracle Press is a good book right after this one.

This is no boring white paper. It was an easy to read informative look at a new way of tuning. As an Oracle DBA II, I am by no means an Oracle expert, but this book allowed me to understand what tuning with the wait interface is all about. It gave me a comprehensive understanding of what the wait interface can display system wide. I was also very happy that there where "working scripts" that actually worked.!!!

I would recommend this book to anyone from a DBA I to a DBA III. It might not even hurt if a few sysadmins read it too...

Did I mention I liked the scripts?

As the editor for this book, I'm probably biased, but Steve Andert has carefully condensed the work of noted Oracle wait event tuning experts into a concise, on-point book.

Free of theory and jargon, the text explain Oracle wait event tuning in plain English and has an excellent code depot of working scripts to explore the Oracle wait Interface and get started fast finding Oracle bittlenecks.

Best of all, it's half the price of other books on the subject!