Re: OTN Tip of the week

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1066517249.498407_at_yasure...
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> >ah well never mind eh.
> >
> >http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/code/tips2003/101203.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I predict Mark Townsend and other Oracle employees that hang out in the
> usenet groups will
> become very very hard to find. What they should do is find whoever is
> writing this stuff, and
> more importantly who is approving it for publication and thank them for
> doing their best to
> promote bad practices.

I see that Mark has already replied appropriately, but I'd like to add that my comments were not aimed especially at Oracle and certainly not at technet which I regard as a must-read, keeping bad stuff out of circulation is a tough job (and peer-review has its issues as well). I was more amused than anything else at the idea that useless work was taking too long so lets find a way to partition it so it fits in a time window.

A more mature approach would probably be to submit some stuff of my own (and yes anything I ever publish should be ripped to shreds I expect it) to OTN.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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