Re: recent drivel posted by Tony Rogerson on his blog

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:21:14 -0700
Message-ID: <1191180064.860274@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Hasta wrote:
> In article <6obuf3pljqn6v5ma6gkfhc7qlg9n1b6l6p_at_4ax.com>,
> sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl says...

>> Please look at 
>> http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson/archive/2007/08/23/oracle-documentation-you-think-we-have-it-bad.aspx
>>
>>
>> HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE http://tahiti.oracle.com
>>
>> What a yoke Mr. Rogerson is, self-appointed 'expert'!
>>
>>

>
> Sybrand, in my opinion he is dead right on this one.
>
> For me, and for others, tahiti is unintuitive and hard
> to use (and I've been using it for years)

I routinely use the websites for Oracle, DB2, Informix, and SQL Server, and Sybase. Tahiti is their equal. If you don't believe me try this simple test:

Try the search string "CREATE TABLE" at the following:

http://www.oracle.com/pls/db102/homepage?remark=tahiti
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms203721.aspx
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v8//index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.doc/welcome.htm
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ddi.doc/ddi74.htm
http://sybooks.sybase.com/nav/base.do

If you see a significant difference I'd love to hear about it. Not just I like green better than blue but specific functionality one has that is significantly better than the other.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Sun Sep 30 2007 - 14:21:14 CDT