Re: Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released into

Dear PostgreSQL community,

Most of the longer standing members of the PostgreSQL
developers or users communities know very well what to do
with information provided by Al Dev (aka Alavoor Vasudevan).

For those who don't know yet, some personal notes that might
help you to make your decision:

* The first edition of Al Dev's book was published by
iUniverse under the title "Database-SQL-RDBMS Howto", ISBN
0-595-13675-3. It is currently on rank 439,321 at
amazon.com. Rank! Not to be mistakenly read as sold copies.

* The book contains Al Dev's original Database-HOWTO. The
PostgreSQL coreteam had a hard time to get this document
"removed" from official sites like linuxdoc.org. It can
still be found on the net, google for the keywords:

"al dev" postgresql howto nuclear weapons in ancient india

An obvious relationship ... no?

* For more examples of his style to put important information
together visit his website

http://www.aldev.8m.com

The table of content for the new book looks the same again.
This is no real drawback and since it is all important
information, one has to read it all anyway, so there was no
need to waste time by putting it into any specific order.

* Every now and then Al Dev seems to feel the need to clearly
point out the superior advantage of open source technology
over commercial products. He then posts his important new
information on a number of mailing lists.

I do appreciating when people think open source technology
is a good thing in general. I also prefer arguments based
on technical facts without polemic bashing.

I have to admit that I am quite courious about it. Since this
one seems not to be available online, I might have order it,
only to write a readers review.

Jan

Al Dev wrote:
> Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released
> into the market
>
> A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)
> Second Edition (revised and enlarged and covers latest
> version of PostgreSQL 7.1.3),
> Published Jan 2002
> Author: Al Dev
>
> International Edition:
> -----------------------
> The cost of the book is very minimal at about $20.99.
>
> Asian Economy Edition:
> ------------------------
> For consumers in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives,
> Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand
> please click on the button which says Rs. 330 (Indian
> Rupees).
> You can also buy this book for Rs. 330 from
> http://www.gtcdrom.com , Bangalore, INDIA as well at
> all GTCdrom branches
> in every major Indian city.
>
> The book is sold at http://www.aldev.8m.com
>
> The first edition of this book (under different title)
> covered
> PostgreSQL 6.1 and sold about 400,000 copies in
> USA/Canada. The
> second edition is available for sale world-wide and
> translated version in
> Japanese and German will be available in near future.
>
> Edition bound, paper back.
> The book has 43 chapters and is about 550 pages.
> Level: Intermediate to Advanced User.
>
> About 40% of the book is generic and can be used for
> other databases
> like MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL server and other 60% is
> specific to
> PostgreSQL.
>
> Books are immensely important for open-source projects
> like
> PostgreSQL as they help the new & experienced users.
> There are several books on PostgreSQL in the market
> which directly and indirectly are helping the
> development of PostgreSQL.
>
> PostgreSQL is a very sophisticated software and to use
> such
> a sophisticated database, you need a book.
>
> "A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)" is
> a "must have" book as it is very difficult to use
> PostgreSQL without
> this book. This book had evolved over a very long
> period of time.
>
> Visit http://www.aldev.8m.com to buy this book.
>
> The Table of Contents are as follows:
>
> Table Contents
> --------------
>
> PART I
>
> CHAPTER 1. Introduction
> CHAPTER 2. Principles of Database Management
> CHAPTER 3. PostgreSQL Solution
> CHAPTER 4. Evaluation and Selection of SQL Servers
> CHAPTER 5. PostgreSQL, Embedded Databases and LDAP
> CHAPTER 6. The PostgreSQL Database Architecture
> CHAPTER 7. The PostgreSQL Instance Architecture
> CHAPTER 8. PostgreSQL Database Administration
> Overview
> CHAPTER 9. PostgreSQL Quick Installation Instructions
>
> CHAPTER 10. Quick Start Guide
> CHAPTER 11. PostgreSQL Supports Extremely Large
> Databases greater than 500 Gig
> CHAPTER 12. Setup accurate Time on a SQL Server
> CHAPTER 13. Replication Management
>
> PART II
>
> CHAPTER 14. Object-Oriented Features
> CHAPTER 15. Java Capabilities in PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 16. Performance Tuning of PostgreSQL Server
> CHAPTER 17. Security Management
> CHAPTER 18. Backup and Recovery
> CHAPTER 19. PSQL Utility
> CHAPTER 20. GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL
> (Graphical User Interface)
> CHAPTER 21. Interface Drivers for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 22. Perl Database Interface Driver for
> PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 23. PostgreSQL Management Tools
>
> PART III
>
> CHAPTER 24. Web-Application-Servers for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 25. Applications and Tools for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 26. Database Design Tool - Entity Relation
> Diagram Tool
> CHAPTER 27. Web Database Design/Implementation tool
> for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 28. PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (Server-side
> HTML-embedded scripting language)
> CHAPTER 29. Web Gem package
> CHAPTER 30. Python Interface for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 31. Gateway between PostgreSQL and the WWW
> CHAPTER 32. "C", "C++", ESQL/C language Interfaces and
> Bitwise Operators for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 33. Procedural Languages
>
> PART IV
>
> CHAPTER 34. Japanese Language Interface/Kanji Code for
> PostgreSQL, NLS support
> CHAPTER 35. PostgreSQL Port to Windows 95/Windows
> NT/2000/XP
> CHAPTER 36. Mailing Lists
> CHAPTER 37. Documentation and Reference Books
> CHAPTER 38. Technical support for PostgreSQL
> CHAPTER 39. Economic and Business Aspects
> CHAPTER 40. FAQ - Questions on PostgreSQL
>
> APPENDIX
>
> 41. APPENDIX A - SYNTAX OF ANSI/ISO SQL 1992,
> ANSI/ISO SQL 1998
> 42. APPENDIX B - SQL TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS
> 42.1 TUTORIAL FOR POSTGRESQL
> 42.2 INTERNET URL POINTERS
> 42.3 ON-LINE SQL TUTORIALS
> 43. APPENDIX C - MIDGARD INSTALLATION
> 43.1 SECURITY with OPENSSL
>
> Visit http://www.aldev.8m.com to buy this book.
>
>
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