a couple of years ago there was a pretty long thread on oracle.server newsgroup where Celko said he basically hates Oracle. Has something to do with Oracle's implementation of SQL. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Milligan" <Michael.Milligan@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:27 PM Subject: RE: Useful Oracle books > Date's books, especially his Relational Database Writings books (there are > four or five of them) are very readable to me. His textbook is more > difficult, but look at one of his Writings books. They are excellent. In my > opinion, his logic is nearly flawless. I also have Codd's book and I like > Date's way of thinking a lot more. Joe Celko has some books out as well. I > read the other day that he "built his career on opposing Date". I've read > his books as well but, like I said, I persoanlly lean toward Date's way of > thinking on relational databases (nulls, etc.) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------