From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Oct 10 16:08:14 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9AL8Ebu009697 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:08:14 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9AL8BvX009687 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:08:11 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D4C7F1FA256; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:08:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09264-01; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:08:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 218941FA196; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:08:07 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=atyM4JWSXT7GiPmT6jRrbI+/OJmcQpPP0aBediG4ng36ylKt8esGpuhkBn/Cr+Wylz/vPHHB+vxTpqUr4A4TPlF0ojJ/Iy9mhcheH+uWh6Lr2cfRbRXy67jf4M8a2CGrMoLUN1AlPutDVwv9BZa2o/Jh7QG2QgSG2p3yn5kCqpI= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:06:08 -0400 From: Paul Baumgartel To: Oracle-L Subject: Re: Grooming DBAs ? In-Reply-To: <7765c8970510101313k3e48a3f4g85c9f071839a4239@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_14108_4949518.1128978368359" References: <7765c8970510101313k3e48a3f4g85c9f071839a4239@mail.gmail.com> X-archive-position: 26656 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: paul.baumgartel@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: paul.baumgartel@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_Part_14108_4949518.1128978368359 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This must be a British thing--I've never heard the word used that way in th= e U.S. On 10/10/05, Niall Litchfield wrote: > > On 10/10/05, VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: > > > > > > Folks > > > > Need to groom a team of DBAs for internal performance Benchmarks of our > > product. This would involve grooming some existing as well as new > > software professionals having a few years of working experience with > > Oracle Databases. > > > > Vivek > > before you get too many somewhat confusing responses, "grooming" has a > different meaning in the english speaking world than training. It really > isn't likely to be the word of choice. For example > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3236571.stm might give you an idea > of the unfortunate connotations your wording may produce. > > > -- Paul Baumgartel paul.baumgartel@aya.yale.edu ------=_Part_14108_4949518.1128978368359 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This must be a British thing--I've never heard the word used that way in th= e U.S.

On 10/10/05, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/10/05, VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHAR= MA@infosys.com> wrote:

Folks

Need to groom a team of DBAs for internal performance Benc= hmarks of our
product. This would involve grooming some existing as well= as new
software professionals having a few years of working experience = with
Oracle Databases.


Vivek

before you get too many somewhat confusing responses, "grooming" = has a different meaning in the english speaking world than training. It really isn't likely to be the word of choice. For example http://news.= bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3236571.stm might give you an idea of the unfortunate connotations your wording may produce.





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Paul Baumgartel<= br>paul.baumgartel@aya.yale= .edu

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