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Burleson has 28 books on goodreads with 1557 ratings. Its impossible to tune an oracle database without understanding sql tuning. You cant have a list of the top sql books without including ben fortas bestselling sql book, sams teach yourself sql in 10 minutes. Also plsql tuning is not the same as statement tuning. Realtime sql monitoring and realtime database operations. As oracle professionals are challenged to create sql statements that will support thousands of concurrent executions with subsecond response time, this book s timing is critical as tuning oracle sql has become the single most important skill of the oracle professional. Formal sql tuning for oracle databasespdf download for free. What are some good books on oracle performance tuning for.
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