RE: RE: SQL and PL/SQL tuning template document required urgently

I tried reading a Harry Potter book backwards once. It was fun, and actually made a bit of sense.

--Walt Weaver
  Bozeman, Montana

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:19, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> As an author, let me just add that it pains US to have to say "which
> I'll show you in ......".
>
> Books are laid out in some sort of order although readers don't always
> read from chapter 1 straight through to the end. If we were to go off
> on every tangent so as not to say "see such and thus later", a reader
> who was "sampling" by looking things up in the index or table of
> contents, would be totally lost.
>
> Plus the thread of the lesson would get hopelessly tangled.
>
> It's a fine line between explaining everything right now and saying
> "later".
>
> --- "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com> wrote:
> > The biggest problem I have with Cary's (and Jeff's!) book is
> > patience.
> > There's constant mention of "which I'll show you in Chapter 6" and so
> > forth
> > and it pains me to keep on reading from where I am so's I don't get
> > too
> > distracted and forget the important concepts I was just reading. :)
> > I also
> > have so many sticky tabs in the first three chapters that I can't see
> > my
> > bookmark anymore.
> >
> > But the upside is it puts my 3-week old to sleep as I read it to
> > her... :D
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> > rjesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:15 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >
> > Neither Tom Kyte's nor Cary Millsap's books are too advanced for
> > beginners.
> >
> > In the case of Tom's book, they may have to ponder things a bit, and
> > actually try
> > the code for themselves to get a good understanding. So what?
> > That's how
> > you learn.
> >
> > Regarding Cary's book, what's so hard about it? Beginner's could do
> > much
> > worse by reading some of the claptrap pablum that is available, but
> > that
> > will
> > just make it harder for them to understand the good stuff when they
> > see it.
> >
> > Also, re the comments about the math in Cary's book: What's the big
> > deal?
> > So what if you don't understand the math? There isn't really that
> > much of
> > it,
> > and you can undestand the material even if you can't follow the
> > proof.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > Oracle - steroids for your brain.
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