Oracle 10g Rel 2 HTML manuals?

[Stew Stryker]

We just upgraded to 10g release 2 (please, no sneering! ) and I'd like to reference the new HTML manuals from PL/SQL Developer, but the books that it lists don't include the basic PL/SQL help pages? Or something like that? Like I'm trying to get help on using REF CURSOR (again, no sneering please! but it doesn't show up on a search.

I noticed on the Setup dialog that the Download button opens a local web page that lists 10g Release 1 (but not 2). That link downloads the file B14117_01.zip (all 262Mb).

To try to save some time and space, I selectively unzipped the folders that seemed relevant (server, application dev, etc) and then ran a Build against it (which took ages) and it listed a LOT of books on the Books tab, most which I selected. But trying to get help on REF CURSOR didn't find the relevant page help.

I found if I go back to the Books page and double-click an appropriate title, I can navigate through the links in that book to find what I want. But isn't that why the HTML Help feature does the indexing?

I also tried the 10g Release 2 file, which I found elsewhere (B19306_01.zip), but that didn't do any better.

Do I need make this ENTIRE doc set available even if I'm not using features like Data Guard, Spacial, Text, etc?

Thanks,

 

[Marco Kalter]

I just downloaded and indexed the 10.2 documentation, and the "PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference" is included and preselected. Apparently REF CURSOR is not a keyword though, and you will have explicitly go into the manual to find it.

 

[Stew Stryker]

This isn't the only keyword I can't get the PL/SQL Help pages to find in this release. Some keywords show up in the list, but double-clicking does nothing. FORALL, and "bulk collect" are examples.

I'm extracting the 10g Release 1 doc set to see if it works better.

It seemed that the Oracle 9i manuals were much better indexed and so were much more useful for this kind of search from Developer.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Double-clicking on FORALL does indeed do nothing. That can't be right. We'll check it out.

 

[bcoulam]

Marco,

Did you make any progress on this issue? I've been meaning to bring this up for months now. After indexing the 10g docs, the F1 key is nearly useless now. Very few keywords are found. I have to bring up my old PSD v6 to get the good ol' PSD behavior I'm used to.

bc

 

[olegp]

I can't get the 10GR2 PL/SQL help pages ether.

 

[CTzen]

It works for me. But I have fresh PL/SQL Developer 7.x setup on this machine and indexed 10G R2 Documentation for the first time.

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