Thank you for making this available, and for free. Nice work.
Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
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Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
#32I have a very negative reaction to sites that require an email to get something of unknown value. Automatic no.
The value is clear if you look at the landing page. There's some interesting techniques in this book, for sure. (I've worked with SQL databases for over 20 years. Several of them I hadn't seen.)
Providing an email address seemed like a fair trade.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's an interesting take, given that the landing page demonstrates its value with some example pages, and the index of topics. I can skim the chapter titles and get a pretty good idea of exactly what value there is. I'm not sure what's holding you up.
Why not a series of blog posts? To me, the reader, what value does sharing my email or it being in The incredibly less flexible "ebook" format have?
> Why not a series of blog posts?
It seems pretty self-evident that they wish to exchange something of value for something else of value. This is a pretty common activity among humans.
Unfortunately, as we see here, "instead, why don't you do even more work to change it to my specifications and then give it to me for free" is a common counteroffer.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
#34Has anyone been able to get the ebook? I submitted my email and confirmed the subscription, but no PDF sent I can only see the Tips section in the website.
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#35Has anyone been able to get the ebook? I submitted my email and confirmed the subscription, but no PDF sent I can only see the Tips section in the website.
Mine came in an email attachment after activating the newsletter sign up.
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#36Awesome, thank you. If you are on Microsoft SQL Server I additionally recommend to take a look at Brent Ozars sp_blitz[1] script collection and the according youtube series. Many optimizations apply for other databases, too.
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#37No, it's not weird to not want to give up an email address before knowing the value proposition, qup and icedchai.
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#38This is amazing. I would gladly donate a small amount.
I already learned lateral joins. I didn't know something like that existed.
I'm fascinated by DBMS each day I use them.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I suggest providing a sample chapter before requiring an email address? EDIT: There are 10 sample pages (images) but on Firefox they are so small you might not notice them. The pages are in a row flexbox container which on Chrome overflows with a scrollbar but on Firefox scales all the way down to fit everything in view at once. Please add "min-width: 45%" in addition to the "width: 45%". Accessibility would also…
It's a 50-page book. If you actually look at what's presented on the landing page, three of the topics have the entire page shown, so you can see exactly what topics will look like.
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 ;) )
Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
#40A person gives you a whole book they wrote for free and you're complaining about asking for an email? WTF
It's not exactly free if they're asking something in return.
I only have like a dozen email addresses. Several of them are for junk mail and subscription type stuff. Do you... not have a junk email address? I would strongly encourage you to start on that, because, even just a stupid gmail account you never use for anything important but use for junk is probably a life changing situation for you if you've never heard of doing something like this.
Edit: Super power here is setting up a 1Password Identity (or whichever tool you use, hell, even a snippet) to auto fill junk email in when signing up for stuff vs not-junk email. I have three identities. One for work, one for personal, one for junk. Makes this stuff super easy and fast.