Re: Finding full-table scans?

"Mike Ault" <mikerault_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
> Howard,
>
> We are all entitled to our opinions. However, whether or not the
> advice given in past postings was correct or not bears little on
> whether the information currently posted is good or not.

I think it should have a bearing. Burleson is full of humbug, and when you're about to act on his advice, it's worth bearing that in mind.

>In this case,
> the script does as specified.

A useful qualification, that first clause.

>if a small bit of self promotion is a
> crime then all of us are guilty.

If only it were a "small" bit of self-promotion! He claims he a world-renowned expert on Oracle internals, but can't quite manage to work out how indexes behave. He claims Oracle Corporation commissioned him to write an Oracle Press book, when the Corporation has absolutely nothing to do with Oracle Press. He claims and he claims, but he doesn't deliver.

More specifically with regards to this forum, he has posted advice here in the past which is technically totally wrong, and withheld the minor nugget of information that it was eight years old in the first place.

No, I didn't check his script to see whether it actually managed to answer the original question: because I've checked other of his answers to other questions, and they suck, so I kind of can't be bothered to keep correcting him.

His posts should come with a statutory humbug warning. That's all.

> Besides, I don't see you answering the question, so perhaps you should
> just keep quiet unless you have something constructive to say.

I think it highly constructive, actually, to warn anyone intending to rely on Burleson's posts that they are usually out of date, technically inaccurate, and come from an ego bursting to promote itself, and to hell with the facts in the process.

HJR Received on Sat Apr 05 2003 - 20:07:58 CST