Hi Flavio,
I remember times (Oracle 6), when there was no online documentation at all.
All we had were plenty of large shelfs filled up with Oracle-Books.
Every few months when we got a new Release (or even a new Release of an
Oracle-Tool like SQL*Forms) the amount of books grew larger and larger.
When you were searching for a specific point in Ora-Docu it could happen
that U tried 10 books for nothing and only the 11th matched.
From that, I learnt that the most important thing is often to know
where you can find documentation. (And as you can see, Oracle is still
improving)
Matthias
PS:
http://tinyurl.com/2c5y
FC wrote:
>>
>
> Excellent Matthias, but I am interested indeed in "old" stuff like Oracle
> 8i, although I guess most of the errors are still the same.
> I specifically searched for SP2-0171 with the Error Message finder
> http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/tahiti/tahiti.error_search?prefill=ORA ,
> replaced ORA with SP2 and tried in various ways without success.
>
> I bet that if you were looking for a Windows NT error, you wouldn't look
> under Windows XP, would you?
>
> What is the meaning of having to wait for the next release of software in
> order to get information about the current one?
> I could not find any reference whatsoever to SP2 in the SQL Plus User's
> Guide and Reference for version 8.1.7.
> There is an Appendix talking about COPY errors, but not SQLPlus messages.
> If you repeat your search in Oracle 8.1.7 documentation library on Tahiti,
> you wouldn't get those 3 matching items, simply because Oracle didin't
> provide a list of SP2 messages.
>
> I was just pointing out that a complex software like Oracle is very prone to
> problems like faulty documentation, poorly indexed entries and so on, which
> is one of points being discussed in this thread.
>
> Thanks anyway.
> Flavio
>
> PS:
> http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.to_URL?remark=drilldown&urlname=http:
> %2F%2Fotn.oracle.com%2Fdocs%2Fproducts%2Foracle9i%2Fdoc_library%2Frelease2%2
> Fserver.920%2Fa90842%2Fwhatsnew.htm%23970654
>
> They are claiming that the SP2 search facility is a new feature!! better
> late than ever...
>
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 23:20:35 CST
