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How to Make Things Faster

How to Make Things Faster

Cary Millsap

How to Make Things Faster is the latest book by Cary Millsap. It's a book for anybody who is curious about how computer programs and other processes spend their time, and what you can do to improve them.

Tracing Oracle

Tracing Oracle

Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt

Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt's new book, Tracing Oracle, will elevate your tracing game. This book is 100% focused on helping you get the most detailed and reliable performance data that Oracle offers. It has a companion GitHub project designed to make tracing safe and convenient.

Mastering Oracle Trace Data, 3rd edition

Mastering Oracle Trace Data, 3rd edition

Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt

When you want to know where every microsecond of your Oracle-based application’s time has gone, there’s only one way to find out: tracing. This book is the definitive guide to mastering Oracle trace data.

Optimizing Oracle Performance

Optimizing Oracle Performance

Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt

This is the book that started an Oracle performance revolution: Optimizing Oracle Performance, by 2004 Oracle Magazine Authors of the Year Cary Millsap and Jeff Holt. In this book, Cary and Jeff defined not just the new response time optimization method called Method R, but the very standard by which performance improvement projects themselves should be measured.