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Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by qup »

uoaei wrote: post #43
qup wrote: post #15

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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.

Your definition of value differs from that of others'.

Yeah, of course it does. Fully agree. I don't understand the point you're making.

I haven't offered my definition of value. I just said that you can clearly determine the value to yourself by reading the landing page, it has the relevant information required (besides actually reading all the content).

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by qup »

courgette wrote: post #39
qup wrote: post #18

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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 ;) )

I'm not the guy, so I don't know. But if I don't like what he does with it, I'll set a filter in about 25 seconds to send the email to the pits of /dev/null

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by christophilus »

evilduck wrote: post #83
pashabitz wrote: post #23

A person gives you a whole book they wrote for free and you're complaining about asking for an email? WTF

Because I weigh the potential of being marketed to by email as being a negative value greater than the potential positive value of the information provided in exchange. 'Free (with the potential to spam you later)' is a world apart from 'Free, gratis, enjoy'.

Wildcard emails for the win.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by tomrod »

tpetry wrote: post #49
tpetry wrote: post #2

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

Worked flawlessly just now.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by uoaei »

qup wrote: post #91
uoaei wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your definition of value differs from that of others'.

Yeah, of course it does. Fully agree. I don't understand the point you're making. I haven't offered my definition of value. I just said that you can clearly determine the value to yourself by reading the landing page, it has the relevant information required (besides actually reading all the content).

And what of values inherent in privacy concerns?

It just seems like you're applying a very narrow view of what can be considered "value" here.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by proto-n »

mdip wrote: post #45

I haven't read the whole thing but I really enjoyed the introduction and agree completely. The RDBMS I've spent the most time with over the years is Microsoft SQL (immediately when 2000 was released) and over the years I've been surprised by two things: (a) How many developers that work with databases every day yet haven't the foggiest idea how to do anything the GUI tooling doesn't handle "easily" and (b) How quickl…

Can you recommend some resources to achieve (b)? Just basic stuff without going full guru on every little detail.

Or do you just mean using indexes basically? I'm just not sure how many unknown unknowns I have wrt sql.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by ibdf »

ylg wrote: post #86
tpetry wrote: post #42

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To be honest. Just subscribe and the next time I wrote a free article and share it with you unsubscribe. I don‘t spam you. Ans I don‘t mind when you only want to grab the ebook.

The problem is not unknown value. It’s unknown cost. Until I know everything you will ever do to me with my email I don’t know the true cost. What I can guess—given the thousands of precedents I’ve encountered over the years—is that the total cost will be time taken from my short life to fend of yet more marketing and yet more marketers. For comparison, if you ask me for currency, I know the total cost of ownership.…

The total cost is how much time it takes to google "temp email" and then click on the first link and use that temp email to get the book. It should take about 2 minutes, maybe even less time than writing out your comment.

Re: Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

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Post by [deleted] »

qup wrote: post #89
tpetry wrote: post #56

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I am already writing every tip as a blog post. But those blog posts take a full day to write as they are much more detailled compared to the short summary in the ebook. My time is limited like yours, and the short ebook is the best way to spread the knowledge: You get the information now, and I'll notify you when those full articles are written.

Hey man, thanks for the book. Don't forget you don't owe these guys what they're asking for. You've done the work to share your knowledge, they can do the work to gather it.

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