And not only have you entered alot of data, you have entered most of it twice! Ruth -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Freeman, Donald Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:35 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Metalink suggested links I did that also, and contacted the metalink administrators and = complained about it, got an analyst and walked back through the whole = thing. You get decoyed after you've already entered a lot of data. = Hopefully, they'll fix it. To me, they always seem to produce good = results in that search context vs what you come up with when you try to = find your problem description or symptoms through the search page. I've = never been very satisfied with their search functionality. It seems they = spend a lot of analyst time referring you to documents that could not be = identified in an automated way through the search engine. I know going = in that I'm going to have to strain my brain trying to think of way to = describe my issue that is going to return some useful results. If things = were working right Metalink ought to be my first choice to find = information on Oracle. Instead, I start googling elsewhere and only go = there if nothing pops up on the web.=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Boivin, Patrice J Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:24 AM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Metalink suggested links I was 2/3 of the way to creating a TAR... Metalink suggested I go see a = page that shows how to generate a statspack report... And it brought it up in = the same browser I had my TAR in. I lost the whole TAR and now have to = start all over again. I am not clicking on any of these suggested links anymore! : ( Patrice. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------