Each section would be fairly independent, so the typical collaberation issues / pains would be minimal. And less of a time commitment to only write a third of a book each.

David, thanks for the comment about the OLAP Option. It’s a pretty cool technology actually, but pretty impenetrable to most people brought up on relational data warehousing. I work for a company who’s history is in Express, hence the crossover knowledge. The only issue with getting skilled up on it is that there’s practically no real production customers out there, at least there weren’t for 9i and 10gR1, I’m hoping it starts to gain a bit of traction with 10gR2 when it doesn’t require lots of patches to get it running.

WRT books – I actually got approached a while ago to do an OWB book, but the remit was for a beginners/manual replacement book, and I didn’t really see the point in rewriting the manual (and it’d be a pretty cynical exercise, not exactly fufilling). What I’d be interested in doing is the equivalent of what Pete’s talking about, something around best practices, optimisation and so on; that’d be interesting and would stretch my skills as well.

cheers

Mark

Hey, just jokes mate!

Thanks Mark – I’m sure you would get at least 7 customers ;) No, you really should write something; there are a lot of people out there that want to use OLAP but are scared of getting started!

David, methinks that Mr Rittman could write that too!

Well I for one envy you your knowledge of the OLAP option. I like the idea of implementing it even though I’d access it via a relational tool like business objects rather than an OLAP tool.

I’m sure that something from you on OLAP would go nicely in an Oracle data warehouse book … now if only there was someone who knew anything about Warehouse Builder around …

I’m still toying with the idea of writing a book on the OLAP Option, the problem is that I think it’d be a pretty small audience. Knowing my luck I’d end up being the domain expert on a product with exactly six customers…