Re: Better Manuals (was: Re: Mirroring)

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Clem Akins wrote: } >I would hope that the people in the benchmark group would have spoken to the } >documentation group long ago. } } Ha ha--that's a good one! } Don't ever make that assumption. Though the doc team gets a lot of } suggestions, } there are far more that they never hear about. Those that are just "barroom } } >This is partly moot with the advent of 7.xx as the waters are much } >muddier. Add to the I/O performance tunables #Buffers, #LRUs, #Cleaners, } } Pretty neat, eh? We've come from "Manuals are WRONG" to "I can think of } no way to put it any better". ;) More like from "Manuals are WRONG" to "Manuals are not right if your goal differs from the authors'" to "With 7.xx this has gone from a science to an ART FORM" (no pun intended). } } >Hey how about a book for Informix Press detailing Administration and } >tuning tips? I could do that! } } Don't say that too loudly, it will come true. They're always looking. } } Actually, there's an intermediate step: write an article for Tech Notes. This has merit. Various people in Menlo have been after me to write for Tech Notes for years. This might be a good first article. Especially since I am always complaining that noone seems to know how to tune 7.xx any better than I do and I don't know what the *&^% I am doing. I guess I should put up what I have learned, and been taught, or shut up. Art S. Kagel, kagel@bloomberg.com