Jonathan Lewis is one of the world's foremost authorities in this field (he is frequently quoted and reference by other leading experts, such as Tom Kyte - see for example http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/download_file?p_file=3067171813508366601

Book will be strongly co-promoted with Tom Kyte's Expert Oracle Database Architecture (1-59059-530-0)

Highlights traps for those migrating from Oracle 8i to 9i to 10g, potentially averting often disastrous performance issues and downtime (=lost revenue)

The first comprehensive book written to investigate, describe, and demonstrate the methods used by the Cost Based Optimizer

Jonathan is one of very few Oracle authors to maintain online enhancements, errata and addenda pages, so the reader will be supported long after the book is published