Re: too much rollback segment usage

Between you and Howard, you have described pretty much why there won't be a 9i book.

95%+ of the book would just be the '8i' book repeated, perhaps with a couple of typos and silly error corrected and minor changes, and 5% would be a couple of new features from 9i which didn't really have any added value to the general principles.

I've got too much pride to churn out a pot-boiler.

Maybe by 10i - with its rumoured new strategies - there will be something worth saying differently.

Thanks for the compliments, by the way, any word of mouth advertising is especially welcome - ditto for the extraordinary 3-day, highly intensive seminar I run on how Oracle works. Soon to be running in Detroit and Dallas.

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Daniel Morgan wrote in message <3D9B12C2.F09486C7_at_exesolutions.com>...


>"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:

>

>> Actually, it *is* a 9i book.

>>

>> In one or two crucial areas (automatic PGA and automatic undo spring to

>> mind), 8i and 9i are profoundly different, and the outcomes are

>> correspondingly diverse. But as far as 98% of everything Jonathan wrote

>> about, it's much of a muchness (index behaviour hasn't changed

drastically,


>> for example, between versions).

>>

>> His publisher should be shot for daring to include the killer words "8i"

in


>> the book's title. Instant consignment to the 'remainder' bin, for

absolutely


>> no good reason.

>>

>

>Alas, Howard you're not a marketer. The publisher will ask Jonathan to make

a


>few small changes, write a couple of paragraphs to promote the "NEW" book

to


>Amazon.com, invest a few dollars in a new cover with 9i prominently

displayed,


>and sell another book to the same people so happy with Jonathan's last book

that


>they will buy anything they see with his name on it.

>

>Then they will congratulate themselves on their improved bottom line and

>anxiously await the release date of 10i so they can do it all over again.

>

>Great book Jonathan. I keep a copy within arms reach too.

>

>Daniel Morgan

>