Re: Rich Niemiec live at ODTUG!

"Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:<gorxa.36056$1s1.523808_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com>...
> "Franklin" <member29243_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message
> news:2888778.1053114845_at_dbforums.com...
> >
> > David Bowie?
> >
> > Wasn't he onw of those Gay English (sorry if this is redundant)
> > flako-rockers like Boy George?
> >
> > I thought that he died of AIDS year ago.
> >
>
> Hi Franklin,
>
> What many people don't know is that (the very much alive) David Bowie has a
> huge interest in computing technology, is a pioneer of the web and become an
> Oracle8i OCP in 1999.
>
> Many of his famous recordings actually relate to experiences he's had whilst
> looking after Oracle databases:
>
> "A Space Oddity" relates to Major Tom, a fellow DBA who couldn't understand
> why he's data dictionary tablespace was so poorly fragmented.
>
> "Time Will Crawl" was penned whilst waiting for the catpatch script to
> complete
>
> "A New Career In A New Town" beautifully describes he's move from his drug
> abusive rock 'n' roll lifestyle, to that of an Oracle DBA in Berlin.
>
> "Under Pressure", he's feeling and emotions during a database recovery
>
> "Changes", issues he's had whilst performing database upgrades.
>
> "Don't Bring Me Down" was inspired by his frequent use of the Shutdown abort
> command
>
> "Sound and Vision" his excitement at realizing what can be stored in a BLOB
>
> "Drive In Saturday", the joys of being on-call while an Oracle DBA
>
> "All The Madmen", his cynical opinion of end-users
>
> and the list just goes on and on ....

Tin Machine is Oracle Marketing?

And there has to be some simile between Oracle/Sun and David/Halle...

>
> Now if he were only at this ODTUG gig, then it really would be worth going
> to :)
>
> Richard

jg

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