RE: Grooming DBAs ?

I am usually fairly familiar with differences in English vs American usage, not the teenage stuff of course it changes too quickly, but I hadn't heard that usage of the word. ICK! Jim

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Subject: Re: Grooming DBAs ?

No, I haven't either. I was expecting him to get lots of replies poking fun at the idea of DBAs grooming each other like monkeys. ;)

janine

On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Paul Baumgartel wrote:

        This must be a British thing--I've never heard the word used that way in the U.S.                  

        On 10/10/05, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com <mailto:niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> > wrote:

                On 10/10/05, VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com> wrote:                 

                        Folks                         

                        Need to groom a team of DBAs for internal performance Benchmarks of our

                        product. This would involve grooming some existing as well as new

                        software professionals having a few years of working experience with

                        Oracle Databases.

                Vivek                 

                before you get too many somewhat confusing responses, "grooming" has a different meaning in the english speaking world than training. It really isn't likely to be the word of choice. For example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3236571.stm might give you an idea of the unfortunate connotations your wording may produce.                                                   

	-- 
	Paul Baumgartel
	paul.baumgartel_at_aya.yale.edu
	
	

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