On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, kg wrote:
> At 09:07 PM 8/26/99 -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
> >At 8:24 PM -0400 8/26/99, Dick Griffin wrote:
> >>Amen.
> >>
>
> <snip>
>
> >This is interesting. Some people are saying the
> >book isn't advance enough. Others are saying it's
> >not basic enough.
> >
> >You can see that it's difficult to come up with
> >something that spans the gamut...
> >
> >--
> >Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
> >Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/
>
> Well, my personal expectations when I buy an O'Reilly book is that it will
> be fairly advanced and the authoritative reference on the subject. I
> expect the book will be targeted towards real life syadmins rather than try
[snip]
>
> Ciao--kg
> http://www.y2know.org/safari
>
> Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
My 2 cents: O'Rielly is the only publisher that consistently provides good
information at a number of appropriate levels. For instance, if you want
Perl you would get (in order of technical complexity) the Llama, the
Camel, or the Panther book. There are actually a few others, but I guess
those three pretty much explain everything I would ever want to know about
Perl. I'm sure that if MySQL user base ever equals (or exceeds?) Perl,
there will be just as many books. BTW, does the MySQL book come with a
pocket reference? The perl quick reference guide is an excellent size to
live in my center desk drawer, and very important to those of us who have
syntactical deficiencies.<G>
I agree that the supplied MySQL manual is very complete with some good
examples, but the 371 pages of HTML I spit out of my printer, are fairly
useless without a TOC or index and matching page numbers. <DOH!> I made a
frames version of the manual with TOC on the left and the manual on the
right, it works pretty good.
John
