RE: Coriolis is dead

>Currently, I'm helping Steven Feuerstein revise his Oracle
>PL/SQL Programming book. I'm only revising a few chapters in
>that: the one on datetimes for example, and today I'm
>beginning work on the "Strings" chapter.

VERY glad to hear that one is getting revised. Its one of the MOST used books on my shelf (Along with the Built In Packages book).

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On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 06:58:39 -0800, you wrote:

>By the way, Jonathan, Have your SQL*Plus books (love em!)... see you have
>good reviews on your SQL*Loader book, so I will be buying it as well.
Workn'
>on anything new?

You'll laugh, but my latest book is a Transact-SQL Cookbook that I coauthored with Ales Spetic. You can see it on my home page at http://gennick.com. Ales is the lead author, and most of the recipes are actually his. The backstory here is that Ales is from Slovenia, and needed help with writing in English. I added a recipe or two of my own, and wrote a lot of expository material for the recipes Ales came up with.

Please don't tell Larry I coauthored a book on Transact-SQL<grin>.

Currently, I'm helping Steven Feuerstein revise his Oracle PL/SQL Programming book. I'm only revising a few chapters in that: the one on datetimes for example, and today I'm beginning work on the "Strings" chapter.

I *badly* want to revise my SQL*Plus books. In a sense, my work on Steven's PL/SQL book is a bit of a distraction from that. If you buy the French edition of SQL*Plus Pocket Reference, you will see that I wrote 21 pages of new material on DML statements and 9i features. The book now has sections on SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, transaction management (commit, savepoint, etc), 9i join syntax, CASE, and some other things. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to convince O'Reilly to just drop that same 21 pages of new material into the English version of the book. Instead, I'll need to fold that material in when I revise the entire book.

So that's pretty much what I've been up to lately. Oh, also today I'm finishing up an article on set comparison in Transact-SQL for the O'Reilly website.

Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com
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