From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Oct 1 11:47:04 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i91Gl4426915 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:47:04 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i91Gl3I26908 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:47:03 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id E78BE72D90B; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:53:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19362-28; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:53:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 23A6E72D911; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:52:48 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: Impressing your boss Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:51:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA6501B9D3FC@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Impressing your boss Thread-Index: AcSny5WfVEh0JT/iTp+lZWqkSkUEuAABFtngAAGdlAA= From: "Goulet, Dick" To: , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Oct 2004 16:51:07.0016 (UTC) FILETIME=[D87D8080:01C4A7D6] X-archive-position: 10563 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: DGoulet@vicr.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: DGoulet@vicr.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org Brian, As I hear it that company was known for unintelligible mumbo-jumbo which caused the resulting troubles. What should you do to impress your boss? Nothing. You got the job didn't you? Therefore you've already impressed him/her. Now get on with what they hired you for, a nice stable, predictable, and error free database. In our profession sometimes "silence is golden".=20 Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Spears, Brian [mailto:BSpears@Limitedbrands.com]=20 Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:06 PM To: ryan_gaffuri@comcast.net; oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: RE: Impressing your boss I (and about 5 other DBA's) spent about a year trying to get management to stop believing a Hollywood style developer...mumbo jumbo coming out of his ears. He impressed the boss till about a year later when all the mumbo jumbo proved to be false and without any substance. The company waisted 1/2 million on this mumbo jumbo. The company was enron.=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of ryan_gaffuri@comcast.net Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:30 AM To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: Impressing your boss managers love metrics. Come up with some completely irrelevant statistics to do a 'db health check'. Show that these numbers are horrible. Then make some completely irrelevant change and show your boss the same irrelevant metrics and proclaim that the db is now healthy.=20 Spit out some archaic and jumbled techno-babble so that noone has any idea what you are talking about(they will assume you are smart, because only smart people talk like that).=20 this actually works... its also useful to get managers to go away when they get annoying.=20 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l