RE: Oracle Book Mal-practice...
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:39:57 -0400
Message-ID: <5709F47931154947BA9DB0C4C3951709028D098B_at_ga016e0m13.corp.suntrust.com>
Everyone knows, well maybe not everyone, the 1970's programmer commandments, but perhaps the young 'uns don't or forgot.
THOU SHALT TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED. THOU SHALT CHECK UP AND MAKE #_at_!@ SURE! The other one I've seen before is "If you believe everything you read here with out verifying, you deserve what you get."
Maks
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> Robert Freeman wrote,on my timestamp of 22/05/2009 11:11 AM:
>
>
> > Very bothersome.... For your Junior DBA's all I can say
> > is buyer beware. Get yourself a good mentor to
> > go with all these books.
>
> Good point. I never forgot what Jonathan wrote
> in his signing of my copy of his book:
> "Never believe all you read"
> To do otherwise is basically an act of faith.
> That has no place in technical instruction.
>
>
> > Cheers all and buyer beware...
>
> Thanks! Not deeply into acts
> of faith, myself!
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> in rainy Sydney, Australia
> dbvision_at_iinet.net.au
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