Re: A better Oracle backup scheme?

From: Fred Pierce <fpierce_at_avialantic.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 08:48:40 -0400
Message-ID: <3CF4CE28.FF11DBA0@avialantic.com>

Don't forget the Journal of Irreproducable Results

fdp

---

Fred Pierce (DNRC) QSS Group Oracle DBA
Avialantic.com fpierce_at_avialantic.com
www.avialantic.com
MAAM WWII Weekend Airshow 2002 - June 7-9 www.maam.org/maamwwii.html
MAAM Transportation Show 2002 - Sept. 21-22 www.maam.org/transhow.html

---

Jeff wrote:
>
> In article <ad0to8$bg3$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz>, "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote:
> >I'll re-phrase your question to illustrate the essential problem here. "Is
> >rman faster than export" could just as well be phrased "is elephant dung
> >yellower than lime juice on a blackboard. With wheels."
>
> Well, I'm not exactly sure which is supposed to have the wheels--the elephant,
> its dung, the lime or the blackboard. Assuming the blackboard has the wheels,
> that both the elephant and the lime are healthy and normal, that the
> elephant has only been eating normal "elephant food," and that neither the
> board, the elephant, its dung, nor the lime has ever been written on or
> erased, as that could certainly affect the results, it appears to me that the
> lime juice is yellower than the elephant's dung. ;-)
>
> I'm working on a mathematical proof of the above, but it'll take me awhile.
> I'll post it later... if not here, then one of the more popular
> science journals like Scientific American or MAD. :-)
Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 07:48:40 CDT