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howto contact Steve O'Hearn (question about MySQL study guide) [message #599917] Wed, 30 October 2013 03:42 Go to next message
rc3d
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Hi

howto contact Steve O'Hearn? Email? Personal homepage?

On Amazon I see rumors that he will relase mid 2014 a MySQL study guide - OCP MySQL 5.6 Database Administrator Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-883)

Series: All-in-One
Paperback: 816 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (August 5, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071775781
ISBN-13: 978-0071775786


but the Amazon desc refers to old exams. He also writes study guide for developer exam? Or only for administrator?
Re: howto contact Steve O'Hearn (question about MySQL study guide) [message #599919 is a reply to message #599917] Wed, 30 October 2013 04:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It is customary to contact authors through their publisher, in this case McGraw-Hill.
Re: howto contact Steve O'Hearn (question about MySQL study guide) [message #599925 is a reply to message #599919] Wed, 30 October 2013 04:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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... especially to know if a new release is planned... but I doubt the publisher will tell you unless the current edition is exhausted.



Re: howto contact Steve O'Hearn (question about MySQL study guide) [message #599968 is a reply to message #599917] Wed, 30 October 2013 09:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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...but the Amazon desc refers to old exams.


I think that whoever creates the 'teaser' pre-release spots on Amazon for Oracle Press does not actually have sufficient technical expertise to do so. A few months ago, their pre-release on Amazon for 1Z0-061 was created with numerous errors. Since John Watson has previously worked with the author, Roopesh Ramklass, I contacted him about the errors and they have since been corrected.

If anything, the one for Steve's new book is even worse since it indicates the book -- to be released August of next year -- will be about exams that are being retired in about 45 days. It also indicates the book is an 'All-In-One' (which means it covers multiple tests) when actually it seems to cover only a single exam (1Z0-883).

Since 1Z0-882 isn't mentioned anywhere in the spot and a search for it reveals no hits on Amazon, I doubt that an Oracle Press manual is planned for it just yet.
Re: howto contact Steve O'Hearn (question about MySQL study guide) [message #619670 is a reply to message #599917] Thu, 24 July 2014 05:33 Go to previous message
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Steve O'Hearn doesn't answer my mails Sad

David Stokes from Oracle made some small gossip that the study guide will also cover developer exam. Source official MySQL Forums -> Certification
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