Re: Career questions: databases

From: David Cressey <cressey73_at_verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:02:28 GMT
Message-ID: <8q1ii.6776$pa5.494@trndny05>

"dreamznatcher" <tashfeenmahmud_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1183326800.623379.185720_at_g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com... On Jul 2, 1:51 am, "Neil" <nos..._at_nospam.net> wrote:

> I'm really perplexed here. I never on heaven or earth could have ever
> imagined a single word I used could have spawned all this...

Most of this is due to the rantings of DA Morgan, and to responses to them. Morgan seems to have proposed a standard of proficiency that involves addressing an audience of 200 of one's peers, taking questions on the fly, and using SQL-Plus to express the answers.

There's a simple explanation for this: he's trying to "out alpha" another regular. If you'll look at the history of his contributions, you'll understand. Received on Mon Jul 02 2007 - 02:02:28 CDT