Re: Index compression vs. table compression

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> Well,
> The secret can now be told.
>
> I am writing a book, provisionally titled:
> Cost Based Oracle - Volume 1
> I hope to finish the bulk of it by the
> end of March.
>
> I've been sweating over it for months,
> and the __really__ hard part is trying to
> restrict myself to the stuff which might
> be useful to a significant number of
> people.
>
> I keep writing pages and then tearing
> them up because they are about some
> little detail that virtually no-one will need
> to know - but their presence distracts
> from the more relevant overview that
> might be useful.
>
> (Volume 2 may be the rocket science bit -
> or maybe that will have to be Volume 3).

Please don't tear them up. The Puget Sound Oracle Users Group, and/or the University of Washington will gladly host them.

I like your title ... but Sybrand's would methinks sell more books.

I expect to be in the Cotswolds in May. I'll stop by to pick up what you haven't shreded. ;-)

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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