Re: 9i books: Question for Tom Kyte and Jonathan Lewis

In article <0c1a0uk3gmqk1qu2k16bclb8eeobr0iumc_at_4ax.com>, Paul says...
>
>On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:19:21 +0100, Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <23881c5e.0111270557.6f987a23_at_posting.google.com>, sheemat_at_yahoo.com
>>says...
>>>
>>>Are you guys planning to re-writing your much acclaimed books shortly
>>>to incorporate 9i features?
>[...]
>>
>>i'm thinking about it -- which means it would be a ways off still. The current
>>book of mine took a full 9 months to write from conception to final edits.
>
>On a related point, do you have any intention of doing a DBA book? I
>love the current book, but as a DBA I kept noticing places where you say
>"... but we won't go into that any more here, as that's a DBA issue and
>your DBA will know all about it."
>
>He doesn't, because he hasn't had a chance to read a book by Tom Kyte on
>the subject yet :-)
>
>Paul.
>

Ahh, but did he read JPL's book?

Here is what I've had to say on this topic (question just came up recently)

http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:1993774905998 ...

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