Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released into the market

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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Jan Wieck wrote:

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).
....

Is all I did was visit his web site, and got a bill from
"billpoint@billpoint.com" for $25.98. I DID NOT order his book:

Subject: Billpoint Invoice for Item # , 1 , for $25.98
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:02:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Billpoint System Notification <billpoint@billpoint.com>
To: Doug@royer.com

...

This is a Billpoint Invoice from alavoor@yahoo.com requesting
payment of $25.98 for "1" . To pay for this item, click on the
link below, or copy and paste it into your browser. (If the
link appears on multiple lines, you may need to copy each line
separately.)

...

Invoice Details
---------------
...
Seller: alavoor@yahoo.com
Seller email: alavoor@yahoo.com
Seller Message: A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL.
...

When I called the WHOIS database phone number for billpoint,
the answering maching answered BILL - POINT, then I hit '0'
and E-BAY answered.

Hi Doug,

I just had a similar experience. I emailed him to request a copy of his
book for review, and bingo, I get an invoice in the email to cough up
cash from Billpoint as well.

This is ridiculous, and is giving us a bad rep.

I'll pursue this further.

BTW, has anyone else suffered this probably-illegal experience with Al
Dev?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Doug Royer wrote:

Jan Wieck wrote:

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).
....

Is all I did was visit his web site, and got a bill from
"billpoint@billpoint.com" for $25.98. I DID NOT order his book:

Subject: Billpoint Invoice for Item # , 1 , for $25.98
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:02:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Billpoint System Notification <billpoint@billpoint.com>
To: Doug@royer.com

...

This is a Billpoint Invoice from alavoor@yahoo.com requesting
payment of $25.98 for "1" . To pay for this item, click on the
link below, or copy and paste it into your browser. (If the
link appears on multiple lines, you may need to copy each line
separately.)

...

Invoice Details
---------------
...
Seller: alavoor@yahoo.com
Seller email: alavoor@yahoo.com
Seller Message: A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL.
...

When I called the WHOIS database phone number for billpoint,
the answering maching answered BILL - POINT, then I hit '0'
and E-BAY answered.

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Doug.vcf Type: VCard (text/x-vcard)
Encoding: 7bit
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Justin Clift wrote:

Hi Doug,

I just had a similar experience. I emailed him to request a copy of his
book for review, and bingo, I get an invoice in the email to cough up
cash from Billpoint as well.

This is ridiculous, and is giving us a bad rep.

I'll pursue this further.

BTW, has anyone else suffered this probably-illegal experience with Al
Dev?

Billpoint, Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
(408) 626 4910
(FAX) (408) 626 4901

I would recommend that everyone that has problems call to complain.
Like I said in the previous email, it seems to also be E-BAY.
They DO NOT want a bad reputation.