RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference?

I like books as well.  For one thing they don't stop working when the =
battery dies or the power fails. They are also portable to that place =
where men get the most done.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: Freeman, Donald [mailto:dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:37 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference?


I would like it... I'm book oriented.  I printed and bound a number of =
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the 8i manuals for reference. I find using 'help' you keep having to =3D
scroll up and down. I don't want to do and crud up the window while I'm =
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actually trying to do something. A little reference book would suit me.

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:25 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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=3D3Dy" 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@xxxxxxxxxxx

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