Rob Freeman raised an interesting topic on Oracle-L a couple of weeks ago with the following:
My question is, what constitutes Oracle Book Writing mal-practice (and I pray I’ve never committed it). Certainly mistakes crop up in books all the time, I’m as guilty as any writer of this. This chapter I’m reading though, in an effort to get the reader to doing something quickly, does not lay any foundation, skips critical steps and actually prompts them to do what I consider some very dangerous things.
The posting didn’t really generate a lot of discussion – which is a shame – and my privileges to write to Oracle-L lapsed some time ago, so I’m writing my response to Rob’s observations here.
