Re: Oracle rabbit colonies

Can I have my cake and eat it too please.

When introducing a subject - which I guess the docs are really doing for the most part - then I agree with Alberto, talk in general terms and don't let a specific example get in the way - hierarchical queries for example are hierarchies - you don't need to go into the org chart specific example.

I also however do want material that presents appropriate uses of very specific examples to show how you might apply the generic technique, something that goes from theory to practice - I'd like to avoid dept and emp though. This probably is where book authors could really add value.

In case anyone missed it though you can have a bit of trouble if your examples get too interesting
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/feuerstein_1000.html

On Nov 5, 2007 10:47 PM, Alberto Dell'Era <alberto.dellera_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> My personal preference has always been for abstract examples,
> i.e. I prefer the tables being presented as parent/child instead of
> DEPT/EMP.
>
> I've always found examples such as the one you mention
> quite distracting, since I need to first understand the example
> in order to understand the feature being illustrated ... and
> what gets memorized is the abstract meaning, not the
> reference to the Rabbit Colony, that gets filtered out
> from my memory almost immediately.
>
> Still, it's a matter of personal preference of course, you
> find them interesting and lively and that's perfectly valid as well ;)
>
> > I've been reading through the Oracle PL/SQL Users Guide and Reference
> > from various years and noticed that the 11g documentation seems to be
> > "lightening up" a little.
>
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