It is all a question of Your Inclination + TimeAvailable@yourDisposal + HandsOnExp. Retaining should Follow. HTH GovindanK On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:20:39 -0400, "Ram K" <lambu999@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Recently this happened to me. I studied a good Oracle book by an > author some months ago. It was a tough read for me, took several weeks > to study, understand some important parts of the book. > > I had emailed several queries to the author. He had responded to me > with his answers after 3 months. To my surprise, I found out that I > had forgotten my own questions to the extent that I could not even > understand them on the first pass in the response email. They looked > too technical for me. I spent quite a bit of time just on the replies > and my questions and then I was able to understand most of the > questions. > > How do people who read lots of technical stuff remember and retain > what they read? > > How many hours of reading do other DBAs put in per week and do others > have problems retaining what they read? > > -- > Thanks, > Ram. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l