Re: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

Hi All,

Just a funny little story,  one day I was interviewing some consultants that had been recommended by a rather large (nameless) consultancy.  The administrative assistant indicated that my next interviewee was in the waiting room.  As I approached the waiting room I looked throught the blinds and they were reading a DBA for Dummies book.  When your resume' says you are "King of the World" and your company wants to charge "Big Bucks" to use you, sitting in the waiting room reading that particular book does not inspire confidence.

John

kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com wrote:

  LoL...So many opportunities for writing books for all these dummy DBAs !!! LoL.. -----Original Message-----Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:15 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LKirti,Good luck!.Does 'OCP for dummies!' come in different versions? Like, '8i', '9i Pro','9i Master' (sounds good '9i Dummy OCP' or '9i Dummy OCM', isn't it?:).I'd love to get '9i' to upgrade my '8i' to '9i' (company doesn't want to payfor oracle classes/tests:)Igor Neyman, OCP DBAineyman_at_perceptron.com----- Original Message -----To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:35 PM   

    Igor, It's a good night-cap :) However, I can use a sign like that, considering what we are going     

    through     

      lately.. Implementing a HUGE system converted to access Oracle RDBMS.Converted from old IDMS COBOL code, to Pro*COBOL programs. Each table has
      
      4
      
        copy-book routines that are called from the main program (PROCEDUREDIVISION) :-) Yes, you guessed it right..... I am not joking.Today, IBM is on site to fix the performance problems..... Hope they find
        
        it
        
          in the H/W... because they did not code the App.Most DBAs are on the side line like dummies!!!Installation of this monster will proceed to meet dead lines and, of
          
          course,
          
            the budget.Next book on my list -- 'OCP for dummies!'Cheers !- Kirti-----Original Message-----Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:26 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LKirti,Too much time on your hands?Does the one, who gets through it's last chapter, get 'Oracle Dummy DBA'sign?Igor Neyman, OCP DBAineyman_at_perceptron.com----- Original Message -----To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:05 AM
            
              Has anyone read 'Oracle8i for Dummies' ??I have checked it out from our local public library....It's not a bad read, I am still in chapter 1, though.. learning some new
              
              
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                  interesting analogies to this techie stuff..- Kirti----
                  
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