Re: Metalink doc Note 160451.1

thtsang_yh_at_yahoo.com.hk wrote:
> Just want to say not everyone learns DBA techniques when working as a
> DBA... Someone may be studying Oracle for their future development.
> Someone may be working in a company where the DBA got a sick leave
> after the world cup. Someone may be working in a company where asking
> the DBA to retrieve an article from Metalink seems more difficult than
> using newsgroup...
>
> By the way, how will an Oracle sales rep react if I say "I want to
> learn Oracle and I want metalink article xxx... What's the price for a
> CSI?" (Actually, I really want one if it is not too expensive...)
>
> (I am not saying that it is correct to ask someone else to do something
> illegal. But I think sometimes it is going too far to say someone
> unethical / thief...)

Oh please. The OP wouldn't have asked us to get it for him if he hadn't already discovered that getting it required a CSI number. And if he is intelligent enough to write SELECT * then he is also intelligent enough to know that if Oracle requires an identifying number, and he doesn't have one, he is not supposed to have access.

No one has ever required access to a metalink document to "learn" Oracle any more than anyone has ever required a patch to do so (well at least since version 7).

I think you are trying to defend the indefensable. If a starving man steals food to feed his family I am sympathetic. If he asks a stranger to steal the food for his family that is quite another matter.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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