Re: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

Outstanding response!

Don Granaman
[certified skeptic]

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:13 AM

> no - DBAs would be skeptical of conspiracy theories.
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> I wonder, do DBA's tend to lean more toward being conspiracy
> theorists then???
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> RF
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> Dennis, I think you nailed it.
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> I was a skeptic before I was a DBA.
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> Jared
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> DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
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> 05/08/2002 08:58 AM
> Please respond to ORACLE-L
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> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
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> Subject: RE: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA
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> Mladen - What hasn't Dilbert had to say about managers? Read his books if
> you need more. Along this topic, someone provided the answer to "why do
> technical people like Dilbert's opinions so much?". Their response was
> that
> because we are hired because we are intelligent and educated (well I'm
> still
> fooling them), we are hard to manage. We tend not to blindly trust
> authority
> figures, but to be a little skeptical. In fact, sometimes I think a DBA is
> a
> professional skeptic.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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