Re: Finding info on new features (was Re: Cost of printed books)

> Starting in 9i, you should find this somewhat better.
>
> There is a book entitled "New Features". (8i had a similar book
> "Getting to Know Oracle8i" whose title was non-obvious.) This book is
> relatively high-level, and refers to individual books for full details
> about each new feature.
>
> http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/db901/db901.docindex#index-NEW
>
> Currently the links to other books still drop you at the table of
> contents, but in future editions you can expect the link destinations
> to become more specific.
>
> Within these other books, new features info is documented
> consistently. Up near the front of (almost) every table of contents,
> you'll find a topic "What's New in ...", with ... replaced by SQL,
> PL/SQL, application development, security, etc. according to the book.
>
> This makes it relatively painless to conduct a search across the whole
> library -- look for "what's new" in titles:
>

But again it's not complete. Little gems such as the one below, are peppered throughtout the RDBMS server docs but not mentioned in the 'tahiti books' documentation.

Windows Graphical User Interface

  The SQL*Plus for Windows graphical user interface (GUI) will be   desupported in future releases of SQL*Plus. The browser-based iSQL*Plus   interface will replace the SQL*Plus for Windows GUI. The SQL*Plus for   Windows command line (DOS) interface will continue to be supported.

  End of Release Bulletin.

George Barbour. Received on Fri Jan 18 2002 - 04:10:05 CST