Foreword

I wish I had written this book. I don’t think I could have done it as well and as thoroughly as K Gopalakrishnan (Gopal), Kirtikumar (Kirti), and Richmond, but I certainly had the opportunity to some years ago. With this book available, and with its contents being so thorough, I don’t think there’s a need for a second book on the Oracle Wait Interface—ever. At least I won’t be writing one, that’s for sure.

(If you somehow have managed not to hear about, read about, or work with the Wait Interface, I suggest you start with Chapter 1, which is a good introduction to the topic.)

In the book Oracle Insights: Tales of The OakTable (APress, 2004), there are some historic “fun facts” about how the Oracle Wait Interface came out of obscurity ...

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