RE: An Oracle Utilities Pocket Reference?
- From: Michael Milligan <Michael.Milligan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:56:05 -0500
I have seven of the O'Reilly Pocket References. Most I don't use very often.
I like the newest SQL*Plus reference because it was expanded enough to make
it useful. I believe you wrote that. The first edition was good but the
second edition is excellent.
In general, the Pocket References just don't give information that can't be
obtained through -help. They should, IMHO, include truly useful tips and
traps, and be organized in a way that makes finding what you need useful.
Also include a tear-out reference of most used parameters, etc., and you
could have a very good thing.
I have Dave Moore's book on Oracle Utilities, which I think is good so far.
However, there is a place for what you want to do if you write it as well as
you did your SQL*Plus Pocket Reference and include tips not in the -help.
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Milligan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Gennick [mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:25 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=y" 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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