Re: Why Oracle is called Oracle

Delphi == TurboPascal for Windows and O/S 2

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/03/2016 04:42 PM, Robert Freeman wrote:
>
> I am sure that we have all heard that Oracle started with a secret project
> called Oracle… but why is the name Oracle really applicable to this RDBMS?
>
> How about this as a suggestion:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine
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> Perhaps here, we have an answer to the question, why does Oracle have
> everything in it, including the kitchen sink.
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> What better way to be a true black box than to include the kitchen sink… J
>
> I thought that it was called after the Oracle of Delphi, an early leader
> in the decision support systems who was also sometimes giving interesting
> results, just like Oracle RDBMS. Probably the most famous is the answer to
> the question what will happen if he attacks Persians by the Lydian king
> Croesus. And the Oracle replied that one great empire would fall if he
> attacked Persians. And it did: his own empire fell.
> There are more commonalities than that: Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi was
> also using SQL to deduce her prophecies. SQL, in her case, meant: Said
> Quixotically on Laurel, because she was inhaling vapors made with laurel
> leaves, which have mild hallucinogenic properties, to make her prophecies.
> During my long tenure as an Oracle DBA, I've seen many SQL statements for
> which I assumed that they must have been written using laurel leaves or
> some even stronger stuff. In my mind, there is an unbreakable connection
> between Pythia and the company in Redwood Shores, CA.
>
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> Mladen Gogala
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