Re: Oracle Press - Dontchaluvit?

Hopefully when 9i Performance & Tuning from Oracle Press is available, you wouldn't find as many blatant errors, as my wife is the technical editor, and has literal torn her hair out over the errors, she has picked up in editing the book.

Jim

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:tfzp9.50802$g9.147441_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> I was busy installing course images today. One of the technical guys
brought
> a copy of the Oracle 9i DBA handbook, just in case I needed it ;-). Out
of
> interest, I flicked to (I think) aroundabout page 78 where Looney and
> Whassername discuss RACs.
>
> I wish I could quote it verbatim. At the top of the page, they discussed
> the "CLUSTER_DATABASE_INSTANCES" parameter... and said "set this to the
> maximum number of DATABASES you think you'll need." They then proceeded to
> confuse 'databases' and 'instances' for an entire paragraph. I wouldn't
> have minded so much, except the parameter name itself makes it abundantly
> clear what we're talking about.
>
> Then the piece-de-resistance was their "Handy Tip": 'Note: only one undo
> tablespace may be active at a time in a database'. This in a section
> dealing specifically with RACs, and -as I hope we all know- each Instance
> requires its own active undo tablespace, so in a cluster it's *compulsory*
> to have MORE than one undo tablespace active in the shared database.
>
> Frankly, I couldn't believe it. I knew Looney was bad, but I hadn't
> realised he (and his reviewers) were quite *that* bad.
>
> Oracle Press = "Beware".
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 22:58:52 CDT