RE: dba age

I claim 36, making me the youngest DBA here. Of course, myself is the oldest DBA here at 36. And I is the average of our ages.

Me, myself, and I work pretty well together, if you ignore all the arguments.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freeman Robert - IL [mailto:FREEMANR_at_tusc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: dba age
>
>
> Well I *AM* 37, and I don't feel old. I'm actually the
> youngest DBA in my
> group, and it seems like I'm always the youngest wherever I go...
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: 7/23/2003 12:14 PM
>
> King Arthur: "Old woman!"
> Dennis: "Man."
> KA: "Sorry. Old man! Whose castle is that?"
> D: "I'm 37!"
> KA: "What?"
> D: "I'm 37, I'm not old!"
> KA: "Well, I can't just call you 'man'."
> D: "Well, you could say 'Dennis'."
> KA: "I didn't know you were called Dennis."
> D: "You never bothered to find out, did you?"
>
> At least I'm "only" on the cusp of 35. And I have 6 years
> "experience"
> with
> Oracle. I've lost whole databases, even, thanks to WindohsNoT running
> Oracle7. My experience tells me not to put Oracle on Windohs. YMMV.
> I've
> experienced upgrades, patches, and migrations -- oh my! I've
> experienced
> the joy that isn't OiD 9.0.2. I've experienced a developer who could
> have
> sworn he was in the test DB. I've experienced successful
> recovery with
> zero
> data loss and no downtime during core business hours. I've
> experienced
> AutoRAID. I've experienced BAARF. I've experienced Intel, Alpha,
> SPARC,
> and PA-RISC. Duhvelopers have experienced my wrath. I have
> experienced
> my
> own wrath during moments of Duh. I've experienced this list,
> with it's
> many
> helpful and some not so helpful members.
>
> And yet, there's so much I haven't experienced. Like lunch today.
>
> Standing in for Paul Harvey,
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 12:05:16 CDT