Tom 在自己的Blog(大陆用户似乎访问不到)中提起了 Oracle 10gR2 的一点信息--其实也不是什么新的信息，那就是 10gR2 已经存在了，并且虚势待发.
install 10g R2, it has been sitting on my desktop for two days now…Tom 透漏的一个重要的消息是他的 Expert One-on-one 第二版将会首先以 CD 的形式发布．目前Guru Tom 的写作进度:
- finish chapter 12 (new chapter that didn’t exist before on datatypes – who would have thought there is so much to say about datatypes..)
- edit chapter 6 (well, that’ll be this weekend)…
- do chapters 13, 14, 15 (that’ll be the end of volume I, new stuff for data unload/load, new stuff for parallel chapter that never exists and update partitioning to 2005)
目前已经可以得到Tom的这本大作的结构内容:
Chapter 1: (general) Being Successful with Databases Chapter 2: Architecture Introduction Chapter 3: (architecture) Files Files Everywhere Chapter 4: (architecture) Memory Structures Chapter 5: (architecture) Oracle Processes Chapter 6: (architecture) Locking and Latching Chapter 7: (architecture) Concurrency Control Chapter 8: Transactions Chapter 9: (architecture) Redo and Undo Chapter 10: (data) Tables Chapter 11 (data) Indexes Chapter 12 (data) Datatypes Chapter 13 (data) Partitioning Chapter 14 (architecture) Parallelism Chapter 15 (tools) data loading/unloading
如果真有CD版的话，那真是造福大批人了：）
好像TOM说的是第二版的书里面会附带第一版的电子版，而不是第二版的