From the official Oracle Press comes a comprehensive guide to tuning SQL statements for optimal execution. This expert resource explains how to view the internal execution plan of any SQL statement and change it to improve the performance of the statement. You'll get details on Oracle's optimizer modes, SQL extensions, the STATSPACK utility, and a wealth of methods for tuning Oracle SQL statements.

Written by the world's most widely-read Oracle script developers and authors of over 50 best-selling Oracle books, Mike Ault, Don Burleson and Harry Conway shares their personal arsenal of Oracle data dictionary scripts in this comprehensive book. With over 50 years of combined experience using Oracle monitoring scripts and Oracle tuning scripts, this is the most comprehensive Oracle script collection ever assembled. Packed with over 100 ready-to-use Oracle scripts, this is the definitive collection for every Oracle professional DBA. It would take man-years to develop these scripts from...

For nearly forty years, Donald R. Burleson has been a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft. Beginning in the late 1970s, he has written article after article that have cumulatively reshaped our understanding of the dreamer from Providence. Among his earlier papers can be found searching analyses of the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, and others on Lovecraft; studies of the topographical sources for such major stories as "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Whisperer in Darkness"; and pioneering studies of mythic elements in "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Colour out of Space."
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