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It depends. There is a fine line between inefficiency and laziness.
Jim
"markag" <member_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message
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> David Lord wrote:
> > My manual set for Oracle is 4 feet wide and I have twice as many
books,
> > isn't it better that someone in a bind asks his question here and
looks
> > in the manuals while waiting for an answer?
>
>
> I have 2 shelves of Oracle books ranging from tuning to PL/SQL to DBA To
> reference material. I can't read them all, but use most of them in some
> way... I know myself that I really try to solve the problem first, but
> if pressed for time, will throw up a post here and move on to another
> problem and wait for the email notification happily from someone who in
> scanning the forum says "hey! I know the answer to that!". Is that a bad
> thing? Sounds simply efficient to me...I think leveraging off the
> internet community in this way is just good use of my time. We are not
> holding guns to anyone's head to answer the questions.
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 07:40:02 CDT