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Re[4]: Know 1 database, know them all?

From: Robert Eskridge <bryny_at_dfweahs.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:28:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0054FA7C.20030217152842@fatcity.com>


And I'll certainly accept your differing opinion and even agree with it in the realm of installing an application and maintaining it. But I think there are traits in the design phase that are more transcendent.

At the risk of torturing a metaphor beyond recognition, if I want to store a meal indefinitely, I want someone well versed in refrigeration and sanitation. If I want it to taste good I want a chef.

BTW, cooking is one of my loves. Curiously, my big epiphany for the preparation of Italian, Mexican, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cajun, etc. came out of an Indian cookbook. Yamuna Devi's description of the processes occurring in a chaunk and thus the sequences that needed to be followed turned on a light -- sort of like when I read the YAPP paper.

F> I don't want to turn this into an OT post, but I beg to differ. When I
F> worked in Siebel Expert Services, I had to be able to install the app on DB2
F> UDB, MS squeal server, and Oracle. BTW, I was hired on the strength on my
F> Oracle skills. Well, that turned me into a DBB (DB babysitter) instead of a
F> DBA for both DB2 and squeal server, and if there were tasks more complicated
F> than write a SQL statement, create a new user, create a table or index, on
F> DB2 and MS squeal server, I was nothing more than a DBB, but if there were
F> performance problems at a customer with the application running on Oracle, I
F> was requested by name to come clean up, where the client would rather wait a
F> few days for me to become available than for Siebel to send in a hot shot
F> DB2 whiz-kid, who on Oracle became a novice at best.

F> Also I should not have chosen cooking as an analogy, because it is one area
F> where my blatant ignorance on the subject is easily detected. But I know
F> that you take some ingredients, do some stuff to it (chop, slice, dice,
F> whatever), optionally heat it and mix it all together, and serve it. Holy
F> cow ! I think I have just mastered the art of this cooking thing too, what a F> productive day this is for me. :-)
F> Ferenc Mantfeld
F> Dreaming costs you nothing. Not dreaming costs you everything.
F> ----- Original Message -----
F> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
F> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:28 AM


>> Curiously, the basics are common across styles of cooking. You have
>> to learn to coax the flavors out of the fresh ingredients and transform
>> them into the proper texture and finish. Once you've mastered Italian
>> cooking, you may not be a top notch German cook, but you're probably
>> just a recipe or two away from being able to produce a very nice
>> German meal...
>>
>> Databases have a certain similarity. If heading an Oracle project and
>> I was given the choice between two people to work on my project, one
>> having been the lead architect for a top notch product based on
>> Sybase, and the other being an OCP that had worked on lack luster
>> products, it would be hard not to pick the former.
>>
>>
>>
>> F> Following the same logic..... if I learn to cook a good Italian dish,

F> then I

>> F> must automatically be an expert in preparing top-class Chinese, German,
>> F> Malay, Hungarian and French cuisine .... Yeah, right !
>>
>> F> Ferenc Mantfeld
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