No Worries. Jonathan has a patch available for his book, to upgrade it to the latest Oracle version. The patch just replaces the 8i part of the picture with the original background. I saw this at Hotsos 2004. Publishers think they can boost sales by printing the latest version number on the cover. It's a pity that on the long term good books suffer from this policy. James even made his book free available in PDF on his website. Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:57, Thalis Kalfigopoulos wrote: > Apparently Jonathan's "Practical Oracle 8i" is a pretty highly > appreciated/respected/used book. On > the other hand I am a bit worried about going for such an oudated[?] Oracle > version even though I > assume from the book's Contents that it talks about a lot of Oracle's > internals/basics, which > obviously haven't changed that dramatically even in 10g. Is my assumption > safe or should I be > worried about the "8i" in the title? > > TIA > ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------