Re: A WTF in the Oracle reference...

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:33:00 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2006.01.26.20.32.59.849847@telus.net>

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:24:20 -0500, Mark C. Stock wrote:

>
> one would hope the editors and author would be able to identify evil before
> popping it into the text ... one would hope.
>
> ++ mcs

Why do you expect they will let stamping out evil stand in the way of profit?

I'm going through one book right now on ORacle tuning, including 10g. I assume it is not meant to be serious - the mistakes in each chapter have me rolling on the floor laughing. Unfortunate that it cost me over $50 - I can rent copies of 'Just For Laughs' reruns for a lot less. More unfortunate that many will buy it thinking it wil be a reference manual.

I suspect it is entirely up to the author and reviewer[s] to ensure there is no evil. One reason I have switched to ensuring >90% of my new purchases are from APress. You get what you pay for ...

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