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A person gives you a whole book they wrote for free and you're complaining about asking for an email? WTF
Maybe OP can also put a donate button for people who don't want to provide their E-Mail and get the book.
Thanks a lot, tpetry!
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Decrease is misspelled on p48. Columns is misspelled on p33. You may wish to run a spellcheck to find the others I didn't. My disposable email I used to sign up has already been nullrouted. Rather than tit-for-tat collecting PII, why not just publish it to the whole web without the extra hoops? I'd have already sent you a PR in that case with more copy edits.
It's not about PII, it's a comms channel to db pros. And yes, a good email list like that is quite valuable, and he wouldn't get that just sharing the resource as you suggest.
A person gives you a whole book they wrote for free and you're complaining about asking for an email? WTF
Yeah, I was sad seeing some of the reactions. To each his own. For a student like me, I would gladly take a free resource and won't mind the newsletter. Maybe OP can also put a donate button for people who don't want to provide their E-Mail and get the book. Thanks a lot, tpetry!
In isolation because of Corona last year, I started to share many lesser-known database tricks I know on Twitter (@tobias_petry). Although I thought that only a few people would be interested in something like this, it became a matter of course over the months. Meanwhile, thousands follow me to read my database tips or news. Since every message in the constant social media stream vanishes after a few days, I had to d…
Gmail now started to classify the email with the ebook attachment as spam. After having worked without any problems before. I am now changing my code, give me a few minutes. Fixed
Anyway thanks, it's great.
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I agree, I had a good idea of what you proposed just sliding on my phone. Let me give you an email in exchange of that bag of tricks. Out of curiosity: what’s happening with the email? ( out of honesty: you will get my spam ridden gmail ;) )
I‘ll send you an email when I have written more full-length articles like the ones under „Tips“ in the navigation.
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Yeah, I was sad seeing some of the reactions. To each his own. For a student like me, I would gladly take a free resource and won't mind the newsletter. Maybe OP can also put a donate button for people who don't want to provide their E-Mail and get the book. Thanks a lot, tpetry!
The criticism is that it's not honest. "For free" is not correct. It's "book against harvesting your contact data". If that's what the first page would say, then it would be honest and nobody would be upset. But acting as if it's been "published" out of pure altruism is just misleading people, and they are righfully pointing that out.