Re: Oracle Press - Dontchaluvit?

Well, that last point is true, too: I couldn't believe that the Appendix A of this book looked like a complete download of the Oracle SQL Reference pages, including those 'dial your own syntax' diagrams.

Clearly this isn't news to some posters, but I haven't looked at an Oracle Press book for several years. And I was genuinely quite shocked.

It got me thinking that it explains quite a lot of the posts we see around here.

Regards
HJR "Karsten Farell" <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com> wrote in message news:Y%Fp9.4456$iz1.197584119_at_newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> > Oracle Press = "Beware".
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> >
>
> I assume you mean the gray books with a red stripe? I don't even bother
> looking at them anymore. The people at my work thought they'd be helpful
> and buy a couple of them for the office. Well, I got so tired of marking
> changes and penciling in corrections to blatant errors or incorrect
> commands ... finally gave up. The older books were simply a cut/paste of
> the distributed Oracle doc set. Tacky.
>
> The other Oracle Press books - the "101" series - though more basic,
> seem to have better proof-readers on their staff. Since both are by
> Osborne, you'd think they'd be similar.
>
> For as expensive as they are, you'd think they could afford to pay for a
> decent, technically competent proof-reader. Sigh.
>
Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 15:01:23 CDT