Bought "Expert Oracle" by Tom Kyte
On my way home this evening I popped into Waterstone's and bought Tom Kyte's book " Expert Oracle: Signature Edition ". Unusually the off-the-shelf price (47.99ukp) was the same as that listed by Amazon. Obviously I haven't had a chance to read it yet, just flicked through and read a few passages. What I have read looks really good, the chapter on materialized views looks particularly interesting. I do have one criticism though, I suspect it's more a criticism of Apress (the publisher) than of Tom. There is very little white space on the pages, the space around the text to the edge of the page is perhaps one centimetre wide all round. Psychologists will tell you that whitespace is important in textbooks to reduce confusion by the reader. I have a more prosaic arguement, I like to make notes. Plenty of white space, especially between the outer edge of the page and the text, is great for making 'notes in the margin' (and the gutter for that matt...