Re: Oracle Server is _VERY_ slow (gone way off topic)

paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk said...
> "Karsten Farrell" <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.18bd95be277c30369896b4_at_news.la.sbcglobal.net...
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> > DBA > retired > DBA
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> I *don't* believe it!
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> DBAs never get retired.
> They either roll back - or are committed.
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> Just had a horrible thought: Perhaps they get aged out of memory. Aargh!
>
> Regards,
> Paul (aka V. Meldrew Senior - VMS for short ;-)
>

Yep. Maybe I should change it to "rolled back" ... better than being committed to an institution, I s'pose ... but the main reason I got hired back is because us old folks don't cost a lot of money ... I took a pay cut equal to my retirement ... made me cheaper than the competition ... the Wal-Mart of DBAs ... but, of course, they don't have Wal-Mart in the UK. ;-)

Ah yes, VMS ... now there was an operating system! And whatever happened to DEC's old marketing slogan - Aren't all computers Digital computers? And DECUS ... that annual hangout for geeks ... sounds much better than COMPAQUS ... though DECtalk couldn't pronounce DECUS correctly.

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/Karsten
DBA > retired > DBA