I didn’t think of checking if the quote was from a recent book; only for its presence on the Internet.
I think it may be a little optimistic to hope that people would keep re-verifying their material and correcting it. (Although Oracle Corp. should, perhaps be an exception on Metalink). I have about 2,000 scripts on my laptop demonstrating various aspects of Oracle behaviour, and it would probably take about 3 years to re-run every one of them properly; there’s even one relating to a quirk of materialized views that I haven’t modified since I created it in May 2000, and the notes in the file are definitely in need of revisiting.

But even if it’s impossible to keep repeating the tests and updating the posts, it’s easy, and important, to put at least the creation date and the versions used when the document was written.

Thanks for that – there’s clearly a gap in my notes in the 9.0 and early 9.2 time-frame.

Your post highlights the need for people who publish information on the Internet to not only verify that the information they provide is correct today, but also that the authors should recheck the information when new Oracle release are made available. It is a little troubling that most of the above quote may have appeared in a book written about Oracle 10g (based on Google a keyword search).