Jonathan Thanks for replying. I tend to agree with you, I never found the user level ratings to be useful. You've probably assessed Cary's book more than anyone besides Cary himself. How much experience with Oracle do you feel a person should have before we recommend this book to them? I suppose if a developer is trying to tune queries, this book might not be suitable. My feeling is that even a novice DBA should be able to understand at least Part 1 and Part 3, and it would get them started on the right path. Can you confirm that? I don't want to recommend the wrong resource to someone. Thanks.
Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L urgently Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 12:59:34 PM, you wrote: DW> Sams Publishing puts a "User Level" rating on their books. Maybe we DW> should ask O'Reilly to do the same. How about that Jonathan? I don't know that we've ever thought of doing that, and I think the practice would be frought with problems. People aren't so easily pigeonholed. Just in terms of "beginner", I can think of: * New to Oracle, experienced with other databases * New to the task of tuning SQL, but an expert tuner at the operating/system level * New to databases and to tuning, but a quick-learner with a solid grounding in computer science * Clueless We could put a user-rating on a book, but there's just no way to account for all the variables such as those I've just listed. Tags such as "beginner", "intermediate", and so forth are over-simplifications. Actually, such tags are aggregates that hide detail<grin>. Better, I think, to just describe a book as accurately as possible and let readers make up their own minds. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Gennick INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
