Re: Bad Generalisations by Don Burleson

In article <3cdbe511$0$15149$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>, Nuno says...
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>In article <3cda8a4a_at_pull.gecm.com>, you said (and I quote):
>> Beginning to see a 'nasty' trend here. "Experts" sniping at "Experts".
>
>Not really. Just people who take exception at "number of books
>published" being used as some form of implicit credibility measure.
>
>> There is no book which covers it all, not one. And, as a matter of fact I
>> don't think there ever will be; The subject of Oracle is too vast, and is
>> getting bigger all the time. I recall at least one Oracle "name" stating
>> that we almost need to split the job between two DBA's now, as the knowledge
>> required is so high.
>
>Absolutely correct. And one more point to reinforce the contention that
>no single person can "publish" 12 books on Oracle and claim to know all
>the subjects covered in them. It's impossible.

No it's not. They'd just be very SMALL books! ;)

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>We all know that many of these books are produced by the metre, with
>contributions from many "cut and pasted" and slapped with the author's
>name as the origin. Wrong.
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>> My point: (and I paraphrase :Hugh Cook)
>> Sometimes the wise have off days, but it is seldom wise unwise for the
>> unwise to write them off completely.
>>
>
>--
>Cheers
>Nuno Souto
>nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam

HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.

Pete

SELECT standard_disclaimer, witty_remark FROM company_requirements; Received on Fri May 10 2002 - 11:08:12 CDT