Re: Index management

"Norman Dunbar" <norman.dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message news:3078e2fe.0405060256.3a0576dc_at_posting.google.com...
> "Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_tbigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:<5Vtkc.5521$TT.227_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> >
> > Go to the download section at www.actoug.org.au, make what you can of
the
> > PowerPoint presentation, wait for the accompanying whitepaper/book, read
it
> > carefully too and hopefully you'll get the picture.
> >
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> in fairness to at l;east one of the quotes experts, Jon Wang, when I
> saw his article on DBAZine, I wrote up and sent him, and DBAzine, an
> article proving without doubt that deleted entries in an index are
> reused as soon as an attempt is made to write any entry that fits into
> the block(s) in question.
>
> John replied and acknowleged his error and promised a following
> article would correct his information. DBAzine replied too and said
> that when they had heard back from John, they would probably publish a
> correction.
>
> As yet, nothing :o(
>

Hi Norm,

I also contacted John and DBAzine approximately a year or so ago after I read all his articles and detailed briefly a whole collection of errors I found in many of them. I strongly advised he spend more time researching and getting his facts together and less time writing.

John responded with a "thanks, you spent a bit of effort there" and to his credit, has only written the one article since. I received not a word from DBAzine.

As his article was still there the last time I looked and as this particular error (one of many, many) was so basic and yet so typical of many, I included it in my little list.

What did you think of the slides ?

Cheers

Richard Received on Thu May 06 2004 - 07:44:24 CDT