Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Let’s face it, writing a book isn’t a rewarding task. At all! It takes a huge amount of your free time, that you could spend doing something way more interesting. So, while deciding whether I should embark on the project of writing the second edition of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, I asked myself several times, why should I do it? In the end, the most important factor was the hundreds positive messages I received since I published the first edition in 2008. I discovered that publishing a book that other people regard as useful is rewarding! For that reason, the first big thank you goes to all the readers of the first edition who gave me feedback. Without the motivation you gave me, this second edition wouldn’t exist.