Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything

From: Jeff C <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:32:52 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKsxbLpiDoDfgCbGZUK2zHhmBwL=2TfCj00xLaBwFF9rXk7biQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

Go to the food court at the mall and everybody gets their own meal and meet in the middle some where. That should solve the bill problem. But now to get our network guys to unblock meetup.com.

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com> wrote:

> Wishing is the first step. Now all you have to do is create an account
> on meetup.com, schedule something, advertise the heck out of it here on
> ORACLE-L, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc and then figure out who's going to pick up
> the check for lunch. :-)
>
>
>
> On 5/6/2014 12:43 PM, Jeff C wrote:
>
> What a great idea. Wish we had something like this in Southern
> California/Orange County area.
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Jeremy Schneider <
> jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> wrote:
>
>> We've got these dba lunch meetups going in Chicago and we tried
>> something new last week. Started lunch by "introducing" one of the members.
>> The interviewee answers a few questions, and we keep the discussion around
>> each question to a few minutes. Fun way to start lunch and there was still
>> plenty of time for the usual techy chatter afterwards.
>>
>> My question for this (oracle-l) list: if you could ask a DBA anything,
>> what would you ask?
>>
>> Here are the four questions we've used so far:
>> 1. how'd you get started with the oracle db?
>> 2. what's the most interesting system or application you've worked on
>> in your career? can you tell us a bit about the architecture?
>> 3. who's your #1 influencer, mentor, or author?
>> 4. what's the #1 thing you need to learn so you'll still have a job in
>> 5-10 years?
>>
>> BTW - lunch is in deerfield today, schaumburg tomorrow and downtown
>> next wednesday. Just in case anyone is interested in joining. :)
>>
>> -J
>>
>> --
>> http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
>>
>
>

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