Yes, I very much agree about Millsap/Holt. Wish I could go to Hotsos this year. Next year, probably. Main priority for me is to take those two Oracle classes so I can sit for the OCM. Yes, I very much like the culture of my new company. I'm not working for an operations team with a drinking problem, I'm working for a drinking team with an operations problem! Seriously, though, we only crack open the single-malt on Friday afternoons. -Mark On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Rich Jesse <rjoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Hey Mark, > > > I just changed jobs and all of my books are still sitting in my bins at > > home. I doubt if I will bring them in. Besides the fact that nearly all > of > > them are 10g (or older) and that I'm now working exclusively in 11gR2, I > > have found in the last few years that I rarely open those books. > Whatever > > 11gR2 books I buy will stay on a Kindle or iPad or whatever e-reader I > > Ditto on the "rarely open" part. However, the one book I regularly do open > is "Optimizing Oracle Performance" by Millsap/Holt. It's application > transcends Oracle/databases/IT and I use it to learn/re-learn as well as > (hopefully) teach. > > > decide on. Just like most of you, I have come to rely totally on The > > Google, Metalink, Oracle-L and alcohol. Of course, Google often takes me > to > > "Often" is the key word. Not all pages are included by Google, as they > mention in their FAQ: > > http://tinyurl.com/goofaq > > Every Oracle/IT book I've purchased in the past two years has been in PDF > format, whether w/DRM or not. Being searchable, (more) portable, and > cheaper make it a no-brainer for me. > > > I have a beer-fridge. > > I'm jealous! For some strange reason, it's frowned upon here at my > workplace. > > Rich > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >