Re: Oracle Unleashed my arse!

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I have never used PO 7 - but if its any consolation, I have never had a Oracle Workgroup Server install go in straight out of the box. If you want to feel better about the situation - you could look at it in terms of how much you are learning for when you come across a real problem !! :o)

The reason for this post is really regarding your review of Oracle Unleashed. I currently have Oracle WorkGroup Server Unleashed on order (it has not been published in the UK yet) and I am concerned that it follows a similar format to Oracle Unleashed.

Does anyone have any information, insight, reviews etc of Oracle Workgroup Server Unleashed ? If so, I would be very interested to see them.

regards

Matt

On Thu, 14 May 1998 01:51:23 +0100, Terry Child <t.m.child_at_surveying.salford.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi All
>
>I needed to learn Oracle 7 and D2K so I bought a copy of Oracle Unleashed.
>The book comes with a trial copy of Personal Oracle 7 and Developer/2000.
>I would like to state for the record that this is the worst computing related book
>that I have every attempted to read. There is absolutely no sign that the book has
>every crossed an editor's desk. Each chapter is written by a different person with scant reference to any other part of the book, and the chapters
>seem
>to have been inserted at random with chapters on database tuning and backup coming before those on database design.. The writing itself is very poor,
>with the individual
>authors giving the impression that they are trying to prove to themselves that
>they understand the subject matter, rather than trying to convey it to the reader.
>All in all a truly awful waste of time and money
Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 10:46:39 CDT