Re: recent drivel posted by Tony Rogerson on his blog

> Search is only useful if you know the correct terminolgy to search on.

Agreed, which is why your example really isn't good because the game can be played both ways....

> Take an example, in SQL Server we have what's called 'Common Table
> Expression'; searching for that on the oracle help does not yeild
> anything similar in oracle yet I know there is something, so, what I
> need is a full scrollable index of topics so I can find what I'm looking
> for.

Now look for Shared Pool or System Global Area in Books Online...can't find it. SQL Server has memory structures which perform somewhat similar actions, but you won't find these in BOL.

Or look for "blocks" in BOL. You'll come up with "Understanding and Avoiding Blocking", "Using BEGIN...END", "Customizing the Lock Time-out", deadlocking, and "Troubleshooting Locking" (at least this is what I found in BOL for SQL 2000). Nowhere in here is that "blocks" in Oracle-speak is "pages" in SQL Server-speak. A fully scrollable index of topics is not going to help me make that terminology transition any easier.

I just don't think that this is a very good argument you have made here because the coin can easily be flipped.

Cheers,
Brian

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