Path: text.usenetserver.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: joel garry Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle on Demand - Kiss your DBA jobs good-bye. Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:27:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 56 Message-ID: <1189808832.006238.221960@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <13eim8uhcfaut3b@news.supernews.com> <1189698769.933913.138140@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <46E9D7C6.50002@sbcglobal.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.112.255.226 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1189808832 16022 127.0.0.1 (14 Sep 2007 22:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:27:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <46E9D7C6.50002@sbcglobal.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 ISA2K4-OC2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.112.255.226; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:435019 X-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:27:12 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) On Sep 13, 5:37 pm, Mark Townsend wrote: > Steve Howard wrote: > > On Sep 13, 11:37 am, Mikail Dellovich wrote: > >> My opinion follows: > >> In an attempt to screw anyone and now its DBA base, Oracle is doing yet > >> another thing ... Oracle on Demand .. also know as the end of the > >> in-house DBA: > > >>http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/10/are-you-afraid-of-... > > >> -- > >> Godlessness, torture and fornication are the hallmarks of our great(sic) > >> society. > > > LOL! It's on a blog, so it must be true. > > I'd argue that this is not a blog. There is a large corporation behind > this site that makes money from the number of visitors to the site. So > they are bound to post a little controversy sometime in order to > a.ttract a few punters. Looks like they used fairly good bait this time Do they make money from visitors to the site, or visitors who click through to advertisers on the site? Where does the money come from and go to? It's a blog. Like the vast majority of blogs, not a good blog. Here's one definition of blog: "A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links." So, ipso bloggo, my blog is not a blog. And neither are a bunch of otherwise excellent Oracle blogs. But my sigblog is! Another definition is "... a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order." So my blog _is_ a blog. Even though its only reason for existence is to post on other blogs. But comments (blomments?) are commonly not in reverse chronological order, so are they not part of a blog? I get those techtarget mailings, but somehow almost never get around to actually looking at them, 'cause the ones I've sampled in the past are often so overgeneralized as to be worse than useless - ie, wrong -, with no correction mechanism. This thread made me poke around techtarget, and find the PL/SQL glossary entry. It points to a document from the last century at Stanford. The SQL definition points to a SQLServer entry... jg -- @home.com is bogus. "What's the use of a revolution without general fornication?" - De Sade