Re: Scary

From: Mark Brinsmead <pythianbrinsmead_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:01:36 -0700
Message-ID: <cf3341710811022101y631194eob93cba26ee9957c9@mail.gmail.com>


Yow!

"DBAs who haven't heard of Oracle Documentation being available online"? That *is* scary!

The last hardcopy set of Oracle Documentation I have seen was probably version 7.3 or *maybe* 8.1. Oracle has to be charging close to $20,000 for the full (database) documentation set these days, so you almost never *see*printed manuals, and when you
*do* it is usually a single set kept under lock and key...

'Course, every now and again, I do encounter a "DBA" who does not know what a JOIN is, or who has never heard of RMAN. Ouch.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg>wrote:

>
> What is bad is that :
> The site owner doesn't bother to respond to comments
>
> What is scary is that
> You do find DBAs (even, unfortunately in large organisations and amongst
> "IT Consultants") who take such blog postings as more reliable than
> http://tahiti.oracle.com (heck, on forums.oracle.com we come across
> DBAs who haven't heard of Oracle Documentation being available online !)
>
>
> Hemant
> http://hemantoracledba.blogspot.com
>
> ....
>

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Cheers,
-- Mark Brinsmead
  Senior DBA,
  The Pythian Group
  http://www.pythian.com/blogs

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