Cary Millsap: Thinking Clearly about Performance
Cary Millsap has a concise, readable paper on performance. Anyone involved in database performance optimization should read it. Cary’s writing has heavily influenced the mk-query-digest tool for analyzing MySQL/PostgreSQL/Memcached/HTTP query performance, and I think you’ll get a lot more from mk-query-digest if you read this paper — and you should also read his book, reviewed here. It’s one of the top books on my Essential Books List.
This reminded me to finally pick up a copy of Cary’s “Optimizing Oracle Performance”, which cost a whole $5–delivered. The next person who gets one at Amazon will have to pay a while $5.75, so act fast!
Greg Smith
24 Feb 10 at 12:54 pm
[...]Baron also shares a link to Oracle guy Cary Millsap’s Thinking Clearly about Performance paper. [...]
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