I prefer www.dictionary.com myself
for a while I was part of an email loop with a bunch of younger, highly
intelligent people who had not had the fortune to waste, er spend, time
in college level English classes.... I soon made dictionary.com a
bookmark in most of their browsers :)
comes from believing reading is one of those involuntary actions, like
breathing
Rachel
- Jared Still <jkstill_at_cybcon.com> wrote:
>
> www.merriam-webster.com :)
>
> Jared
>
> On Friday 05 April 2002 12:13, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> > Jared - Well, if the tech book market is in the dumps, it isn't my
> fault.
> > I've bought 2 Oracle books this week. I would still argue that an
> RMAN for
> > Dummies or RMAN 101 book would have a wide audience because RMAN is
> a
> > standard part of Oracle so a lot of sites will be taking a look at
> it. You
> > know, for people that don't know what "esoteric" means :-)
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 11:47 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >
> > Not very likely. The tech book market is in the dumps already, and
> > this book would be rather esoteric.
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > On Thursday 04 April 2002 12:08, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> > > Ron
> > > Hopefully one of the authors on the list is writing the great
> RMAN
> > > book that people like me need so much. In the meanwhile, check
> out
> > > "Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference" from O'Reilly. At only $10 you
> can't pass
> > > it up. Jonathan Gennick who participates on this list edited it.
> > > For us, hot backups never worked out. That is why we are looking
> at
> > > RMAN.
> > > Dennis Williams
> > > DBA
> > > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:49 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > List,
> > > I need the name of a good book that deals specifically with
> RMAN. I
> > > have read the fine manual and have found out that it basically
> works
> > > with a third party vendor software if you are using tape as the
> backup
> > > storage media. There has to be a way around this requirement. I
> have a
> > > 70 GIG test database that I would like to use Rman on and I am
> not going
> > > to use a catalog for RMAN. I have a system tape drive that I
> would like
> > > to use to backup each tablespace individually. I do not have a
> large or
> > > multi cartridge drive to use. Backup to disk is not possible as I
> do not
> > > have much free space.
> > > Could you please inform me of the contents of your
> > > V$BACKUP_DEVICE.DEVICE_NAME if you use a tape drive for backups.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ron
> > > ROR mª¿ªm
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