Category Archives: Oracle General

OTN forums etiquettes

Finally finally finally a small sticky has been posted on OTN Database forums homepage. But its there only on Database forums page not on PL/SQL. It reads like:

Posters, please mind these common-sense rules when participating here:

– When asking a question, provide all the details that someone would need to answer it. Consulting documentation first is highly recommended. (See http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2007/03/02 for more hints.)
– When answering a question, please be courteous; there are different levels of experience represented here. A poorly worded question is better ignored than flamed – or better yet, help the poster ask a better question.

Thanks for doing your part to make this community as valuable as possible for everyone!

– OTN

That means Database forum enjoys most number of flames 😉

Asking Tom ? Read this !

Tom Kyte did a post on his blog about posting of reviews of questions on Asktom. In a nutshell the reviews not related to the original question will be ignored/deleted (not decided yet, as Tom said).

As other people said in the comments, personally I too like this idea very much. Earlier, many times, there were questions which started with someone asking about appropriate SGA size, then there were some other twists and discussions and then the thread ended in discussion about good or bad authors or something similar light years away from the original topic.

Now this action will make the discussions flow in a very controlled and neat & clean manner, all about the original topic. Hoping to see all the “great content” in a very orderly manner 🙂

Sidhu

Google friendliness of …

Being a new kid on the block, I think, my post will not fire any serious and “scary” discussion as it has happened many times in the past. Just writing my experience. Whenever I search something related to Oracle in Google there are few sites that are bound to come up in the very first results ( No surety about the relevance and completeness of the content, though). Today I was searching about scheduling new jobs in oracle and I was, sort of, surprised to see the results [Though, I got from there, what I was looking for & I would like to say Thanks for that]. Many other times also, I have seen these websites pop up like anything.

When I had started my job and after that put the CV on few job sites. Everybody used to say: put more number of keywords in the CV as their search bots select the resumes on the basis of keywords only. Perhaps same thing applies here also. They have included each and every possible keyword in Oracle on their websites [& I think in a better way than it’s been done in Oracle documentation ;)]. If its not one of their own websites then some books website (that also their own, obviously) will come up [& the keywords matched here are from table of contents or some portion from some chapter Ctrl+C’ed and Ctrl+V’ed there] with advertisement all around imitating the big bang universe theory. Some special experience, with making websites Google friendly, they have got 😉

Sidhu