Re: recent drivel posted by Tony Rogerson on his blog

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:57:41 -0700
Message-ID: <1191286650.917101@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Barry Bulsara wrote:
> On Sep 30, 6:09 am, sybra..._at_hccnet.nl wrote:

>> Please look athttp://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson/archive/2007/08/23/oracle-...
>>
>> HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO USEhttp://tahiti.oracle.com
>>
>> What a yoke Mr. Rogerson is, self-appointed 'expert'!
>>
>> --
>> Sybrand Bakker
>> Senior Oracle DBA

>
>
> In my opinion, the Oracle documentation is second to none! The issue I
> have with it is that I can never find what I am after quickly - it is
> difficult to get relevant hits on tahiti or docs and the search hit
> ranking is often just plain weird. I have posted on this in this
> newsgroup previously. I personally resort to using Google to search
> the Oracle documentation, or PSOUG maintained by Daniel.
>
> Where Oracle is deficient in its documentation is that it lacks the
> ability to add "Community Content" to the primary documentation, to
> extend, further explain, or correct issues that may have been
> overlooked. This is great functionality Microsoft have added to
> document many of their technologies online, eg. the SQL server
> documentation referenced by Tony Rogerson, and others, eg. .Net.
>
> Barry

Not completely true in 11g where you can communicate directly with the writers.

But I would hardly call using PSOUG's content as "resort to." There is a perspective many of us bring to the material that would be impossible to obtain inside the software vendor itself. For example this post:

http://www.psoug.org/reference/plscope.html

Read the warning. No employee of any software company could ever write what I did and still have a job.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Mon Oct 01 2007 - 19:57:41 CDT