The second edition of Cary Millsap‘s MASTERING ORACLE TRACE DATA (MOTD) is finally available. You can order it through amazon.com. I had the pleasure not only to review MOTD while Cary was working on it, but also to write a foreword that summarizes what I think about the book. So, if you are asking yourself […]
Oracle 11g Streams Implementer’s Guide
In this post I would like to share with you my impressions about the book Oracle 11g Streams Implementer’s Guide by Ann L. R. McKinnell and Eric Yen. But, first of all, I would like to warn you about two things. First, Packt Publishing, the publisher of this book, asked me, a long time ago, […]
The Art of Application Performance Testing
If you are looking for a book that describes how to approach and carry out a performance testing project, don’t look further. Get a copy of The Art of Application Performance Testing: Help for Programmers and Quality Assurance (O’Reilly, 2009). In it Ian Molyneaux manages to cover, in 160 pages, a crucial topic that is […]
SQL and Relational Theory
C. J. Date was the keynote speaker at this year’s Hotsos Symposium. The speech was entitled “Foundation Matters”. I couldn’t agree more. Fondations are very, very important. As I wrote at the beginning of part 1 (which, by the way, is entitled “Fondations”) of my book: He who has not first laid his foundations may […]