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I received a DB2 cert study guide a few weeks ago, but frankly I am a bit overwhelmed ... The book is not much into conceptual explanations, but more of just a detail dumpYep, the book is a Certification *STUDY* guide. A Study Guide is a book that is there to help you remember those pieces you have already learned.
Jacoby-N-Meyer also sprayed:
If it was into explanations, it would probably be a foot thick.Yerp, that why the books *I* have on >JUST< Oracle == 4800 Pages from O'Reilly alone(couple I have multiple editions ie. 2nd and 3rd). Not to mention Booklets, handouts and stuff could be another 1200 pages. And I am NOT even a DBA.
For am Example of the Theory and Concepts of REAL Oracle work, go [link|http://oracle.oreilly.com/|HERE]. And PLEASE stop bitching about something you really know NOTHING of. I don't have 25% the talent and knowledge needed to make Oracle Databases zing, I do a good job of prepping a machine *FOR* a Heavy Duty Oracle DB... And *I* don't bitch about not being able to Remmeber things (mainly because *I* can :)
Also, BJ spouted this gem of a saying:
I don't have a photographic memory. I am a conceptual thinker. I index things in my head by concepts or uses, not exact string matches.Neither do *I* have a photographic memory, but what *I* do have is a way of myself fresh enough to have the info near-online. Also, I don;t index things... I use a tree method for keeping things in my head, much better on resources, of which *I* have plenty and not requiring a full-data-dump and data-re-load to index and compress properly. I learn most things anyway, rather than memorize.
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