Oracle Parallel Processing

Better overview on the subject I havre read.

There are not many books available, except for Oracle Documentation, on the topic of Oracle Parallel Processing and Parallel Server. Trying to learn the parallel processing concepts from documentation is not that easy. This book offers an excellent introduction to the world of Oracle Paralell Processing. Some parts may be rehash of Oracle documentation but then Oracle Parallel Server and Parallel Processing concepts are quite complex and the authors have done a great job in presenting the information in clear and concise manner. I agree that this book may not add value to people who are very well experienced in large (terabyte) parallel databases, but new comers to Oracle Paralell Processing will definitely benefit from this book.

This is a excellent book that goes over what you need to know about Oracle Parallel Processing. The documentation is clear and concise. If additional information is need, references to Oracle Documentation are noted throughout the book. Picking this book up just for the Parallel Execution chapters (Ch 3 - Ch 5) is worth it even if you are not using Oracle Parallel Server.

I refer this book as a Parallel Processing and Parallel Server MADE EASY. If you are a serious Oracle DBA then this book is for you. This book is the single point of Source for many of PARALLEL Processing/Server related questions. Use this book to boost your system performance. This is the only book all database professionals need to start working with Parallel Processing and Parallel Server. Every Oracle DBA should read and use this book. I strongly recommend this EXCELLENT book.It completely touched all about Parallel Processing Architecture, Concepts, Tuning with numerous examples. It covers OPS architecture, Administration, Concepts, Storage, Tuning, Partitioning, Failover in depth in simple words. For me this is RIGHT BOOK AT RIGHT TIME.

Good effort. This is the first book dedicated to Oracle Parallel Processing. Very good information about OPS and OPS tuning. Could have used a little more description on the OS configuration steps for OPS.