I've been taking over a small mySQL/PHP database, and quite happily use the O'Reilly MySQL and mSQL manual. However, I have noticed some annoying problems with its thoroughness: (all comments refer to the PHP-and-mySQL documentation only)
Some of the discussion is pretty light. Once you've got your data out a query, and are skipping through the result array, is it a *zero based* or *one based* array? The book should say, but doesn't.
The function references don't refer to one another. Once you've found the routine that gets data from a query result, you'd think there'd be a "see also: the routine that got you those results". But there isn't.
Not all routines are documented! And some that are documented are listed as "depreciated"!
I'll almost certainly get v2.0 of the book, though, assuming that it becomes more complete.
Kudos to O'Reilly! I sent in a list of problems, and they got right back to me!
I've been in the same position in Massachusetts (USA). My health plan had been HCHP (aka Harvard Community Health Plan), an HMO there; I kept in via COBRA until COBRA ran out; then I switched to just buying it on my own. Sometimes it can be hard to buy insurance -- my then fiancee had a heck of a time getting convincing HCHP that she wanted to just pay for some insurance, and that she wasn't indigent or covered by someone else's coverage.
Paranoid suggestion #1: be sure to pre-pay the first month and get the cancelled check *before* the switchover. Just in case there's a claim that there was some sort of "gap" in the coverage, you have your proof that there wasn't.
Happy Ending #1: I actually had an operation in the last few days of COBRA coverage, followed by recuperation in the first few days of regular coverage. There was never even a hint of problems, service denied or delayed, or extra bills or paperwork.
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I've been taking over a small mySQL/PHP database, and quite happily use the O'Reilly MySQL and mSQL manual. However, I have noticed some annoying problems with its thoroughness: (all comments refer to the PHP-and-mySQL documentation only)
Some of the discussion is pretty light. Once you've got your data out a query, and are skipping through the result array, is it a *zero based* or *one based* array? The book should say, but doesn't.
The function references don't refer to one another. Once you've found the routine that gets data from a query result, you'd think there'd be a "see also: the routine that got you those results". But there isn't.
Not all routines are documented! And some that are documented are listed as "depreciated"!
I'll almost certainly get v2.0 of the book, though, assuming that it becomes more complete.
Kudos to O'Reilly! I sent in a list of problems, and they got right back to me!
I've been in the same position in Massachusetts (USA). My health plan had been HCHP (aka Harvard Community Health Plan), an HMO there; I kept in via COBRA until COBRA ran out; then I switched to just buying it on my own. Sometimes it can be hard to buy insurance -- my then fiancee had a heck of a time getting convincing HCHP that she wanted to just pay for some insurance, and that she wasn't indigent or covered by someone else's coverage.
Paranoid suggestion #1: be sure to pre-pay the first month and get the cancelled check *before* the switchover. Just in case there's a claim that there was some sort of "gap" in the coverage, you have your proof that there wasn't.
Happy Ending #1: I actually had an operation in the last few days of COBRA coverage, followed by recuperation in the first few days of regular coverage. There was never even a hint of problems, service denied or delayed, or extra bills or paperwork.