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I've been reading through the Oracle PL/SQL Users Guide and Reference
from various years and noticed that the 11g documentation seems to be
"lightening up" a little. The jovial and personal tone found in the
earlier documentation pretty much dried up and went away with 10g.
This is unfortunate as the occasional side-step explanations made
reading the older manuals a more interesting.
I do not have access to any documentation prior to 8.0 so I cannot
compare the documentation of those releases, however the PL/SQL Users
Guide and Reference for versions 8.0 through 9iR2 make mention (in a
mere 12 words) of the Fibonacci sequence and how it was used to model
the growth of a rabbit colony. The reference to Fibonacci was made
within the "Understanding and Using Recursion" section of the
manuals. The 8.0 through 9.x have a few code examples that are
interesting reads. But 10gR1 and 10gR2 documentation not only omitted
the "rabbit colony" reference but also the code examples in that
section. The 10g documentation as a whole is rather dry and unexciting
and the examples I thought to be useful were ripped out. The 11gR1
documentation managed to squeeze in a recursive function for finding
the nth term of a Fibonacci series as a means to demonstrate using
RESULT_CACHE. The example procedure "find_staff" disappeared
altogether with the 10g documentation. I doubt the cuts were made to
conserve space given that the PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference is
5000+ pages long.
Scanning through the other books through other releases follows the
same pattern... Oracle must have hired a new manager to preside over
the doc writers for 10g ;-)
jason b.
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