peter.sharman_at_oracle.com said...
> In article <MPG.18dfaa529fd119896fd_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net>, Karsten says...
> >
> >l.durance-no_spam_l_at_ifrance.com said...
> >> Anyone knows a good book of Oracle Database Administration.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >That depends a lot on your level of DBA expertise. "Oracle DBA 101" is a
> >good introduction. You might be better off going over to amazon.com and
> >search for "oracle dba" and read some of the reader reviews of the
> >different books.
> >--
> >/Karsten
> >DBA > retired > DBA
>
> Ah, yes, but even there you need to apply a modicum of your own knowledge. Let
> me tell you of two experiences I'm personally aware of with Amazon:
>
> 1. Soemone put a review of my book in that said (gasp, shock, horror!) that
> there were a number of glaring mistakes in one of the chapters. Well, of course
> I knew that was wrong, because I don't make any errors, let alone glaring ones!
> :) Anyways, I went back through that chapter, as did my tech reviewer and some
> others, and none of us could see what the problem was (the Amazon reviewer
> hadn't mentioned specifics). I cotnacted Amazon and asked them to forward the
> reviewer (the review was done anonymously) an email from me asking what the
> problem was. Amazon's response? They deleted that review! It certainly wasn't
> what I wanted, and I never found out what the supposed mistakes were.
>
> 2. A good friend posted a review where they laid out in quite a bit of detail
> some of the errors found in a particular book (names are not important here).
> THe reviewer was sent a nasty gram from the author telling them never to do it
> again (but not responding to the issues the reviewer had raised), and their
> review was also deleted.
>
> I've had other things I've done reviewed and received rave ratings from some
> people while others have responded with not enough detail type of comments. You
> just can't satisfy everyone (unless you're Jonathan or Tom) and you need to be
> careful when looking at other people's reviews. Take the overall thrust of the
> reviews maybe, rather than individual ones, but even there I've seen lots of
> praise for things which are largely crap (not Jonathan and Tom, I hasten to
> add!)
>
> HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
>
> Pete
>
> SELECT standard_disclaimer, witty_remark FROM company_requirements;
>
Thanks, Pete, for the view from the other side of the fence. I guess
you've just proven again that you can't believe everything you read.
(Wow, listen to me, restating all those old cliches.) I should have said
that you have to take the reviews with a grain of salt (just like I do
with movie reviews).
Thanks again. And you're right, these comments do not apply to Jonathan
and Tom. :) Well, okay, to you either. Can't believe someone gave you a
bad review.
--
/Karsten
DBA > retired > DBA
Received on Tue Mar 18 2003 - 13:01:29 CST
