RE: Unintentional Humor

[Melanie Caffrey]

Well all, I’ve been corrected in my statements below, and I am always one to own up to my mistakes (or misstatements).   I guess what I should have said is that in SOME cases, there is not always a clear communication between all parties involved when an advertisement is made.   In this case, I have been informed otherwise.   So, what initially looked to me like innocent, albeit egregious, mistakes in a book advertisement, were apparently just plain egregious.   So, you are all correct.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melanie Caffrey Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Unintentional Humor   Alright.  Now, I feel I have to defend this poor guy.  For if I don’t, who will?   First of all, the book title lists the covered items as   Hidden programs – COMMA – export/import – COMMA   And so forth.   VERY different from something like   Hidden programs:  export/import, SQL*Loader, etc.   Secondly, I’m sure the author didn’t mock up his own press page.   These things are typically created by some “editor” of sorts at the accompanying publisher.   And, if any of you have ever published a book before, you should be intimately familiar with the fact that, nine times out of ten, the people writing these press releases *really* don’t know what they’re writing about.   A few catch phrases thrown around here and there and it’s assumed to be good enough.   What somebody should have told Dave Moore is “NEVER let any press mockups or releases go out without you having gone over them with a fine-toothed comb”.   Otherwise, what just took place in this thread is bound to happen …   Now I can’t speak to the efficacy or accuracy of his book.  All I’m saying is take Web pages, particularly Web pages on publisher Web sites that are touting books they want to sell, with a grain of salt.  And don’t dump on the poor author until you’ve read his book …     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephane Paquette Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Unintentional Humor   You mean the hidden $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory   Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 499-7999 7470 and (514) 925-7187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Daniel Fink Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Unintentional Humor I see what you mean. Too funny! Hmm...I guess I've been wrong all these years. And all that time I wasted reading the official documentation on such "undocumented" and "hidden" programs like export/import, sql*loader, tkprof...   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, well I thought it was funny. Doing a google search on some Oracle stuff, I found the following page. http://www.dba-oracle.com/bp/bp_book6_utils.htm Scroll down a bit?  Do you see the funny part?   Jared