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I have seven of the O'Reilly Pocket References. Most I don't use very often.
I like the newest SQL*Plus reference because it was expanded enough to make
it useful. I believe you wrote that. The first edition was good but the
second edition is excellent.
In general, the Pocket References just don't give information that can't be obtained through -help. They should, IMHO, include truly useful tips and traps, and be organized in a way that makes finding what you need useful. Also include a tear-out reference of most used parameters, etc., and you could have a very good thing.
I have Dave Moore's book on Oracle Utilities, which I think is good so far. However, there is a place for what you want to do if you write it as well as you did your SQL*Plus Pocket Reference and include tips not in the -help.
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Milligan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Gennick [mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:25 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference?
Some of you may know that I work I work for O'Reilly Media, editing some of their Oracle titles. We've been batting around the idea of publishing an Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference. On the one hand, a small, concise book to remind one of the syntax for such utilities as oradebug, expdp, imp, sqlldr, orapwd, tkprof, and so forth seems like a useful thing. On the other hand, many of these utilities come with online help. For example, you can issue "exp help=y" to get a quick summary of export options. Maybe a pocket reference would not add enough additional value to be worth its price.
So I'd like to put the question to all of you, would a utilities pocket reference be useful? Is it something you would be likely to buy and use? If you could have any pocket reference (or I guess any book for that matter) you wanted to make your DBA job easier, what would that be?
Best regards,
Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com
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