Re: Heavens!

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:<5T%ma.15205$1s1.240230_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...

> Online Redo Logs:
> snipperoo...
> Scary, huh?

Don't even know where to start...

> I wouldn't mind, but the organisation that has this for download proudly
> boasts on its home page that it is an Oracle Approved Training Centre.

Shows how much that endorsement is worth, doesn't it? Ah yes I forgot: it's all about revenue! Certainly not about *training*...

>
> Sometimes, I despair. There really seems, sometimes, very little point in
> trying to learn (or teach) this stuff properly when this nonsense is doing
> the rounds, or certain well-known authors promote their rubbish ad nauseum.
>

Howard, one of the reasons I gave up on being a full time DBA was that for nearly 14 years I was bombarded with this kind of rubbish. By whomever Oracle decided to promote as "expert du jour".

On and on, relentlessly, I had to put up with this sort of rubbish and a LOT MORE. And *NOT ONCE* did Oracle EVER support me in getting this ignorance off the market. Quite the opposite, in fact. Dunno about you, but it gets sort of "under the skin" after a while...

> (Oh, and incidentally, this is all contained in their "helpful" exam-cram
> for 8i OCP Backup and Recovery exam. I wonder if any of their students ever
> passed?).

Of course they passed! I've met heaps of them around...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam Received on Tue Apr 15 2003 - 20:50:47 CDT