both :)
and only then do we add in the duhvelopers and damagers
I can shoot myself in the foot better than anyone else can!
- "Daniel W. Fink" <optimaldba_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> A group of high school students enrolled in the Oracle Internet
> Academy
> attended RMOUG's Training Days conference. As part of their
> assignment,
> they had to write an essay about what they gained from the trip,
> parts
> of which were published in SQL> UPDATE_RMOUG, our local magazine. The
>
> essays were all very interesting (most were amazed that they knew
> stuff
> we adults were just learning about), but the best quote comes from
> Patrick, a senior.
> "I also came to appreciate the real lives of database administrators,
>
> programmers, and developers in a couple of great sessions. First, we
> went to "How NOT to Be a DBA: Top 20 Critical Mistakes" [by Rachel
> Carmichael] and heard some interesting war stories. Then, we went to
> the
> hilarous "Heroes and Zeroes:Thirty Years of Database Disasters." [by
> Dave Ensor] They both made me wonder: is a DBA's worst enemy him- or
> herself, or his or her peers?"
>
> Out of the mouths of babes...
>
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