Re: Stephen Andert's article

Jonathan,

Nice review.

Looks like a fantastic book! It would have been great to have it when I first started Oracle (or will be great to get it if we start having more complex data loading requirements than is currently the case, e.g. graphics files).

About 5 or 6 years ago I called Oracle tech support asking why the SQL*Loader documentation (Oracle6&7) wasn't very good, and if any supplemental information was available. A particulary good Oracle tech support guy (Dan Needles?) faxed me about 25 pages of "internal" Oracle documents (notes/etc.) about SQL*Loader, some of which he had authored. My guess is that most/all of that material he covered is also in your book, plus more.

OT: I was interested in the waterfall stuff in your ".sig" file, so I clicked. If you don't mind the suggestion, you might consider clearly labeling the waterfall map image (http://MichiganWaterfalls.com/up_map.gif) as being upper Michigan. Being from the west coast and not very familiar with midwestern geography, it wasn't apparent at first glance what the map image was, and I had to refer to a map of the whole state (at www.mapquest.com) to get a clear idea of the specifics.

regards & best wishes,
ep

On 13 Apr 2001, at 8:30, Jonathan Gennick wrote:

Date sent:              Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:30:22 -0800
To:                     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>

> Stephen Andert, a member of this list, has a
> SQL*Loader-related article

...

> http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oraclesqlload_0401.html.

> ... http://MichiganWaterfalls.com

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