On Mar 10, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Aymeric Augustin 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10 mars 2013, at 10:34, Petite Abeille <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Aymeric Augustin 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Oracle's online docs are a sad joke
>> 
>> Specifically? The Oracle document is rather extensive and detailed. What's 
>> confusing you?
> 
> 
> They're purely reference docs.

Yes, the reference documentation is very extensive.

> They make lots of assumptions about things you're already supposed to know.

Yes, references are not tutorials.

> They aren't educational at all.

Yes. On the other hand, there are large swath of more conceptual materials as 
well, such as the "Developer Essentials" series:

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage

Granted, this can all be a bit of a mouthful due to the sheer amount of 
documentation and tutorial material available. But it's there.

> If you're familiar with Oracle — ie. you paid for training & certification, 
> or you're using it regularly — that's probably OK.

Sure enough.

> I'm only dealing with Oracle to fix failures in Django's test suite or ensure 
> that new features are supported under Oracle. Clearly I'm not smart or 
> knowledgeable enough to take advantage of its docs.

If you can formulate the issues in terms of SQL, then perhaps someone could try 
to help sort it out.


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