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Re: Can we revoke select priv from all_users tables??

From: Jeremiah Wilton <jeremiah_at_ora-600.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:05:50 -0700
Message-ID: <46BA05FE.5090301@ora-600.net>


Oh, so priceless.

Indeed, the Federal Consulting group should probably also have had exclusive dominion over the other military dimensions of DBA work, such as General Slowness, Private Rollback Segment, Colonel Parameter, Major Failure, and probably the Command Prompt as well. All running on a Commodore 64.

Someone stop me :-(

Jeremiah

Tim Gorman wrote:
> Reminds me of the old JD Edwards "while paper" that stated that the
> Oracle parameter "SPIN_COUNT" should be set to a value derived from the
> number of disk drives on which the database is housed multipled by the
> RPM of those drives. For example, if your database is situated on eight
> hard drives of 10,000 rpm apiece, then the Oracle parameter "SPIN_COUNT"
> (later "_SPIN_COUNT") should be set to 80,000.
>
> When I worked at Oracle Consulting in the 1990s, I worked for the
> "commercial" consulting group that dealt with non-government,
> non-military customers -- governmental or military organizations were
> the province of the "federal" consulting group. One day, one of the
> practice managers from the "federal" group stopped by to get something
> off his chest. He asked us why our group was dealing with "Federal
> Express" and why the "federal" group wasn't handling that customer?
> Ummm.... hmmmm.... where to start? I'm surprised he didn't ask why we
> were dealing with "General Motors", as well... too bad he didn't ask
> about "corporal punishment"... :-)
>
> You just can't make this stuff up. <shake-of-head>

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