Oracle PL/SQL Tuning: Expert Secrets for High Performance Programming (Oracle In-Focus)

This book has been a great resource for me as I get acquainted with various Oracle assets, including many things that I was not aware of concerning PL/SQL. Expect to learn improved ways of handling Oracle, knowing that this book is for the advanced and eager Oracle user. Dr. Hall obviously has experience in Oracle, to the point where he can exemplify these complex concepts in an easy to follow format. From one Oracle professional to another, I highly recommend this book.

very useful for many things but, it's not a programming book so, at the end of the book you've focused your attention only on few things that you should learn and keep in mind.That's it...I'm happy with it but in my opinion it's a bit too expensive for what it gives.

Received item in excellent condition but it arrived longer than expected.For the book itself, I was expecting a more advanced tuning topics to becovered in it. The title is a bit deceiving. Other than that, everythingelse was good.

Book supplied PL/SQL tips, read through the book quickly...I have been working with PL/SQL for over 10 years and I found some good tips in the book.

This book has a good demonstration of the tuning. It will be better if it can add in more example using Hints.

This book sucks; they should call this book useless way to try to improve the performance of oracle. For instance the author simulates a slow sql statement by using example of a state that counts the time for a number of seconds, like of like a sleep command. Doing this for a number for year I never came across a sleep or wait command for slow query. The authors also never say why or go into detail about his suggestion. It is like he does not really know what he is talking about but gives you example of the problem and solution but never really goes into why.

I found some very good advice in this book for PL/SQL tuning. Using some of the examples on bulk loads and forall..inserts I was able to get hundredfold improvements in some row at a time loads. The examples were easy to understand and showed techniques for verifying performance effects. They could use a better proofreader, but on the whole, I think this is a good book for a PL/SQL developer.