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From: jimmyb on 17 Jul 2010 19:37
On Jul 16, 6:10 am, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Kyte's book "Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database
> Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition"
> was supposed to be released yesterday and it isn't yet available on the
> Amazon. What is he doing? Can Oracle Corp. clone him? We need more than a
> single Tom Kyte. Things would be much better if there were 3 or 4
> instances of Tom Kyte, clustered. I'll be so presumptuous to suggest the
> marketing name ExpertData, named after "Exadata".
> Does anyone know when will the book be released into the wild?
>
> --http://mgogala.byethost5.com

I got an updated email from Amazon. Looks like the Tom Kyte book is a
few weeks away from shipping.

<quote>
We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on July 02 2010
(Order# xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):

Thomas Kyte "Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database
Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition"
Estimated arrival date: August 03 2010 - August 11 2010
</quote>
From: Mladen Gogala on 17 Jul 2010 20:49
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:37:40 -0700, jimmyb wrote:


> Thomas Kyte "Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database
> Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition"
> Estimated arrival date: August 03 2010 - August 11 2010
> </quote>

And that is why I never pre-order books any more. Being an inhabitant of
the Big Apple, there are few bookstores available and I'll get the book
as soon as it shows up at my friendly local B&N.



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From: Charles Hooper on 18 Jul 2010 13:52
On Jul 17, 8:49 pm, Mladen Gogala <mgog...(a)no.address.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:37:40 -0700, jimmyb wrote:
> >  Thomas Kyte "Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database
> > Programming 9i, 10g, and 11g Techniques and Solutions, Second Edition"
> >    Estimated arrival date: August 03 2010 - August 11 2010
> > </quote>
>
> And that is why I never pre-order books any more. Being an inhabitant of
> the Big Apple, there are few bookstores available and I'll get the book
> as soon as it shows up at my friendly local B&N.

My order is still showing an expected ship date of July 19, 2010
(tomorrow - free shipping). I ordered the book on May 23, so maybe
they are trying to fill the oldest orders first. Tom's book is
currently listed as #1 in the Oracle category on Amazon's sales rank,
and I suspect that Amazon underestimated the demand for the book (or
Apress under estimated the number of copies needed in the initial
printing). I look forward to seeing the changes that the author was
found between Oracle Database 10.1 and 11.2.

Mladen, it is good that you are supporting the physical book stores
that sell Oracle books. The stores in my area usually carry only a
couple of Oracle books, and lately not anything that I am interested
in purchasing. The benefit of being able to physically page through a
book before purchase and walk out the door with that purchase is
sometimes worth the 25% to 40% higher cost.

By the way, very funny humor at the start of the thread... ExaKyte

Charles Hooper
Co-author of "Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration
from the Oak Table"
http://hoopercharles.wordpress.com/
IT Manager/Oracle DBA
K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc.
From: John Hurley on 18 Jul 2010 16:16
Charles:

# Mladen, it is good that you are supporting the physical book stores
that sell Oracle b ooks.  The stores in my area usually carry only a
couple of Oracle books, and lately not anything that I am interestedin
purchasing.

Amen.

Looks like Mladen was talking about Barnes and Noble. The local
Borders do not carry more than 5 or 6 individual titles of anything in
the Oracle area and it is always 1 of each book. The local Barnes and
Noble are similar ... while we may eventually see this title out there
( maybe ) ... the pickings are quite slim.

Nobody to blame really just the dynamics in the marketplace.
Bookstores cannot afford to carry inventory that does not move and
even though computer books in general do not sell much of what does
sell in a bookstore it tends to be the Microsoft type Windows 7 for
dummies type of book.

I am planning on checking out the book when it comes out and probably
getting 25 copies ... one for each developer. Then the old
assignments to read a chapter and get together to review/highlight
material.

From: Mladen Gogala on 18 Jul 2010 16:30
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:16:32 -0700, John Hurley wrote:

> Looks like Mladen was talking about Barnes and Noble.

Yup. They have a really nice place on B'way and 9th Street in NYC.



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