Re: Happy Holidays!!

It's quite a few more than that.

Reading the first 50 lines of the subscription roster, 11 of the subscribers have obviously female names.

Jared

On Friday 20 December 2002 06:04, Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> I'm sure if Jared had time, energy or inclination, he could do a guess
> from the membership list. However, some names are not intuitively
> obvious as to gender.
>
> Not counting lurkers, since I can't tell who they are, I think there
> are at least 10 women on the list....
>
> I'm more interested in the numbers to see if this field is less
> male-centric than others.
>
> --- "Panicker, Thankam S." <tspanicker_at_cooperstandard.com> wrote:
> > Thanks to all for responding to my post on Oracle and Peoplesoft. I
> > will be
> > making the move this
> > New Year. I wish I had found out about this List earlier. It is great
> > to see
> > people sharing their knowledge.
> > Happy Holidays to every one!!
> >
> > Rachael, I have all my shopping done and gifts packed. :-)
> > Wish we had a count of our kind on the list.(You know - orawoman
> > kind.)
> >
> > Sumathy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:35 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >
> > I would agree with Joan - we spend lots of time refreshing databases
> > here.
> > We were responsible for all of the application servers, web servers,
> > process schedulers, etc. until a technical architecture team was
> > formed.
> > That has helped tremendously since my team can concentrate on the
> > Oracle
> > side. We have a very large Peoplesoft Financials environment here
> > (along with HR and budgets) so we have lots to keep busy with and
> > opportunities to use additional Oracle functionality (we have a large
> > replicated environment, use lots of partitioning, etc) . I would
> > also
> > recommend you at least take a PeopleTools course or one of the
> > administration courses mentioned by Joan so you understand how
> > Peoplesoft
> > stores and uses metadata. As far as book recommendations the only
> > decent
> > book that I have is the "Peoplesoft Administrator's Guide" by Darrell
> > Bilbrey which is good for someone new to Peoplesoft. We really
> > do most
> > of the normal functions that any DBA would do regardless of
> > Peoplesoft.
> > Database still has to be backed up, tuned, and maintained like any
> > other
> > Oracle database - I consider myself to be an Oracle/Peoplesoft DBA,
> > not a
> > Peoplesoft/Oracle DBA if that helps you any.
> >
> > You will also learn to hate PS Query if your users have ad-hoc query
> > access. :-)
> >
> > John Dailey
> > Oracle DBA
> > ING Americas - Application Services
> > Atlanta, GA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Joan Hsieh"
> >
> > <joan.hsieh_at_tufts To: "Multiple
> > recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > .edu> cc: (bcc: John
> > Dailey/NAC/ING-FSI-NA)
> > Sent by: Subject: Re: Oracle
> > and
> > Peoplesoft
> > root_at_fatcity.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 12/19/2002 09:45
> >
> > AM
> >
> > Please respond to
> >
> > ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Sumathy,
> >
> > It is not too much different from oracle peoplesoft and regular dba.
> > Except you have to know more about peoplesoft components, peoplesoft
> > application server, process schedular, web server,weblogic.. there
> > are
> > some peoplesoft courses I am highly recommend you to take,
> > "Configuration and Administration" " Data Management Tools" and
> > another
> > one " peoplesoft server administration on Unix/Oracle". They has a
> > website just like metlink. you need a customer id to access it. I
> > feel
> > like as long as peoplesoft infrastucture setup correctly in the
> > beginning. It save a lot of time to troubleshoot later. As a
> > oracle/peoplesoft dba, you have to constantly deal with upgrade
> > poeplesoft tools, application, oracle. so clone the production
> > database
> > is major thing to do. we are constantly refresh testing databases
> > from
> > production. so automate those scripts are very helpful.
> >
> > Joan
> >
> > "Panicker, Thankam S." wrote:
> > > How different is an Oracle Peoplesoft database from a regular
> >
> > database?
> > Or
> >
> > > in other words what all extra tasks
> > > does an Oracle Peoplesoft DBA do? How easy/difficult is it for a an
> >
> > Oracle
> >
> > > DBA to transition into a Peoplesoft environment?
> > >
> > > Are there any good books/ websites on this subject?
> > >
> > > I would highly appreciate your comments and suggestions.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > Sumathy Thankam
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> > > Author: Panicker, Thankam S.
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