Finding info on new features (was Re: Cost of printed books)

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:27:39 -0000, "George Barbour" <gbarbour_at_csc.com> wrote:
> - features not mentioned at all, - It takes quite a trawl to find new
>features in a new Oracle release. They are eventually mentioned, but where?

Starting in 9i, you should find this somewhat better.

There is a book entitled "New Features". (8i had a similar book "Getting to Know Oracle8i" whose title was non-obvious.) This book is relatively high-level, and refers to individual books for full details about each new feature.

http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/db901/db901.docindex#index-NEW

Currently the links to other books still drop you at the table of contents, but in future editions you can expect the link destinations to become more specific.

Within these other books, new features info is documented consistently. Up near the front of (almost) every table of contents, you'll find a topic "What's New in ...", with ... replaced by SQL, PL/SQL, application development, security, etc. according to the book.

This makes it relatively painless to conduct a search across the whole library -- look for "what's new" in titles:

http://tahiti.oracle.com/pls/db901/db901.drilldown?remark=&word=what's+new&book=&preference=&method=LIKE&expand_all=1

(Using "new features" as a search term works also, since the "What's New" sections have subsections entitled "New Features in ...".)

John

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