RE: Books to suggest

From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:07:41 +0200
Message-Id: <1093950461.7566.34.camel@dbalert199.dbalert.nl>

No Worries.
Jonathan has a patch available for his book, to upgrade it to the latest Oracle version. The patch just replaces the 8i part of the picture with the original background. I saw this at Hotsos 2004. Publishers think they can boost sales by printing the latest version number on the cover. It's a pity that on the long term good books suffer from this policy. James even made his book free available in PDF on his website.

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:57, Thalis Kalfigopoulos wrote:

> Apparently Jonathan's "Practical Oracle 8i" is a pretty highly appreciated/respected/used book. On
> the other hand I am a bit worried about going for such an oudated[?] Oracle version even though I
> assume from the book's Contents that it talks about a lot of Oracle's internals/basics, which
> obviously haven't changed that dramatically even in 10g. Is my assumption safe or should I be
> worried about the "8i" in the title?
>
> TIA
>

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