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Re: whats going on

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:01:35 +0100
Message-ID: <3D20D13F.677E@yahoo.com>


George Barbour wrote:
>
> > Doing so they will *never* learn Oracle.
> > Also keep in mind that there are very few people responding here.
> > Should they waste their precious time by answering the same questions
> > over and over again? Or do you think they should stop responding to
> > those questions?
> > > Regards
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
> >
> There are very few people responding, and it would be interesting to display
> a hit summary of respondents on someone's web page, .......Jonathan?
> BTW a hit summary of just readers, the silent majority, would be interesting
> as well.
>
> My belief about why there are so few, is the quality of response that one
> gets from this newsgroup. The quality is so high, the answers are usually
> very concise and focused. It is a brave person that submits an answer to
> this group with so many outstanding authors in attendance; every answer
> submitted is an invitation for a correction.
> Just consider the 'myths thread'; that must opened the eyes of quite a few,
> it has certainly opened mine.
>
> I have been a DBA for many years now, I have learned the trade from Oracle
> training, books, CBT's and big-time this newsgroup, and I know I will
> continue to learn from this newsgroup.
> My contributions are virtually non-existent; mainly because I don't feel the
> need to contribute given the present company.
>
> George Barbour.

George,

Half the fun is floating an idea and getting pummelled to mush by people finding the 3719 holes in your theory... as my sig says

"Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue..."

:-)

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Connor McDonald

http://www.oracledba.co.uk

"Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue..."
Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 17:01:35 CDT

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