Dawn, I'm surprised to see the comments below from someone who spends a good amount of her time in academia. Bookstores are filled with technical books which supplement vendor documentation, much of it coming from educators who know the material as well or better than the vendors' writers. There are hundreds of books which cover the same material in different ways. Just look at what's available for Java, VB.NET, PHP, XML, Linux, and a wealth of other topics.
People buy books in part because they like _how_ authors explain topics, even though much of the material is repeated in most texts. I also choose some of my books by publisher because the bigger ones use standard templates, formulas which work well to allow readers to get through complex material comfortably. The MV DBMS is quite complex, composed of many subsystems. It's not just a data model, it's a "database management system". There are a great many books on Oracle and SQL Server, and I'm sure there could be a number of books covering various nuances of Universe too - and Unidata, QM, jBase, D3, Reality, OpenInsight, Cachi... The notion that the Pick data model is too simple for a book is, uh, simplistic, and the fact that there are so many MV DBMS vendors in some ways only validates the idea that we just need more books. My best, Tony "Can and usually does write a book on anything" Gravagno Dawn wrote: > I suspect that > someone would write another one if there were a market for it, but the > vendors all have documentation and the user exchanges, such as > u2-users, help get folks the rest of the way. It is neither mainstream > enough nor difficult enough to prompt someone to write a new book, I > suspect. Additionally, the various Pick vendors have mostly gone > their separate ways on client-server and there are many third-party > products, so other than the basics of Data BASIC and the Pick data > model, most of the information needed is vendor-specific at this > point, I suspect. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
