| docs.oracle.com [message #627352] |
Tue, 11 November 2014 04:18  |
John Watson
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Have you been to docs.oracle.com today? I get this screen named "Oracle Help Centre" with lots of big tiles with silly patterns and only after loads of clicks can I actually get to the docs, which are now presented in a kind-of child like display that makes it really slow to read and navigate around. Does Larry think that I am still in the Kindergarten, and can't read anything unless it is in big type with pretty pictures?
OK, I know that I am on old man who thinks "it is new, therefore it is bad" but I never have I been so glad that I had the foresight to download all the documentation sets to my PC.
Thank you, Uncle Oracle.
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| Re: docs.oracle.com [message #627357 is a reply to message #627352] |
Tue, 11 November 2014 05:04  |
cookiemonster
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Far more annoying than what they've done to the layout is what they've done to the search.
When I type instr in the search box I expect the main instr page in the SQL Language reference to be top of the list, it isn't even on the first page any more.
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| Re: docs.oracle.com [message #627358 is a reply to message #627357] |
Tue, 11 November 2014 05:05 |
cookiemonster
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And now I've looked at the top page, yes that's rubbish.
I always had it bookmarked down at the level of the particular DB release I wanted.
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| Re: docs.oracle.com [message #627360 is a reply to message #627352] |
Tue, 11 November 2014 05:40 |
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Michel Cadot
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+1
Searching for a specific book is now painful.
You can send your opinion, there is a form that appears on the left. At least once as now I have no more it, or maybe they remove it after too much "bring back our documentation" message.
At least they should let the "All books" tab/link (this is the case for 10g doc, why not for the other versions?).
I hate those tools which want to be smart and are just wasting our time.
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| Re: docs.oracle.com [message #628116 is a reply to message #627374] |
Thu, 20 November 2014 04:30 |
cookiemonster
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Any one have a clue where they've hidden the utilities guide?
I want to look something up on datapump and I'm getting precisely nowhere.
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| Re: docs.oracle.com [message #628127 is a reply to message #628120] |
Thu, 20 November 2014 05:05 |
cookiemonster
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John and LF - thanks. Now I know about the bookshelf link life is easier (my orginal link to 11g docs pointed to a level below the page with the bookshelf link)
gazzag - yup, I can find the utilities guide in the first page of google results. Probably should have thought of that, but at the same time I assumed they must have left a link to it somewhere
You have to wonder if there was team of very bored developers at oracle - there was nothing wrong with the original and this downgrade is worse in every way.
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| Re: docs.oracle.com [message #630179 is a reply to message #628120] |
Mon, 22 December 2014 03:17 |
John Watson
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gazzag wrote on Thu, 20 November 2014 10:51I had the same problem and found Google to be a better front-end. I've just come across another bit of lunacy: nowhere on docs.oracle.com is there a link to the Master Index for 12.x. At least, not where I can find it. I'm downloading the docs zip file again, I hope it's included.
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