Talk about useful
Chuck, June 07, 2012 - 8:13 am UTC
Thanks Tom and Red Gate.
Great, but I wonder what's in it for Red Gate..
Hoek, June 07, 2012 - 9:14 am UTC
Ofcourse I downloaded the Ebook as well.
Thanks to you and Red Gate, Tom!
Now I'm not a commercial kind of guy, so I wonder what the benefit will be for Red Gate?
What will be their ROI?
Do you get some fee per download?
I checked their site, but (ofcourse) didn't find anything comprehensive from that point of view.
Any idea if, and if so, when we may download Jonathan Lewis'Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers as well? ;)
Regards,
Martijn
Classic topics
Hoek, June 08, 2012 - 5:31 am UTC
June 08, 2012 - 7:56 am UTC
:) I've seen his presentation in person and agree with it 100%
He demonstrates how complex it is to generate transactionally correct triggers to enforce integrity constraints - and suggests to not leave that up to mere mortals, but to software instead. And I concur.
It is possible to write well formed, correct triggers. It just takes a good knowledge of how the database actually works.
And triggers to enforce data 'correctness' do not have side effects - they just validate data (they do not for example write to the :NEW record - a scary proposition if you ask me, they do not create data automagically, they just check stuff)
Trouble with triggers
Doug, June 08, 2012 - 6:35 pm UTC
This is great!
Al Ricafort, June 08, 2012 - 9:53 pm UTC
I almost pass up this topic. It's a good thing my curiosity got the better of me. Otherwise, I would have probaby missed this opportunity.
A pdf version?
Al Ricafort, June 08, 2012 - 10:03 pm UTC
Ok, I just downloaded it and they have 3 formats and one of them is in PDF. Now, did they realize that with a PDF format your book can be all over the internet regardless this is a limited offer or not?
And a question for you Tom. I remember reading probably in this site where one asked you why not publish your book in soft copy. And you said something like you don't want your book to be illegaly downloaded.
So why the change of mind?
June 09, 2012 - 6:40 am UTC
It was always the publishers decision. I've never had any control over it.
RE: What's in it for RedGate
Duke Ganote, June 09, 2012 - 1:37 pm UTC
June 09, 2012 - 1:59 pm UTC
book
A reader, June 10, 2012 - 9:12 am UTC