From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Oct 10 16:17:28 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9ALHSa8010507 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:17:28 -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 j9ALHRvX010497 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:17:27 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 684A21FA039; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:17:23 -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 10572-05; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:17:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 2DE9A1FA034; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:17:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: References: <7765c8970510101313k3e48a3f4g85c9f071839a4239@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-10-347872419 Message-Id: <6120A7CF-B3BA-4EB6-8C68-F2AA7E5725AE@furfly.net> Cc: Oracle-L From: Janine Sisk Subject: Re: Grooming DBAs ? Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:15:27 -0700 To: paul.baumgartel@gmail.com X-archive-position: 26657 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: janine@furfly.net Precedence: normal Reply-To: janine@furfly.net 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=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 --Apple-Mail-10-347872419 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed No, I haven't either. I was expecting him to get lots of replies poking fun at the idea of DBAs grooming each other like monkeys. ;) janine On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Paul Baumgartel wrote: > This must be a British thing--I've never heard the word used that > way in the U.S. > > On 10/10/05, Niall Litchfield < niall.litchfield@gmail.com> 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 > --Apple-Mail-10-347872419 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 No, I haven't either.=A0 I was = expecting him to get lots of replies poking fun at the idea of DBAs = grooming each other like monkeys. ;)

janine

On Oct 10, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Paul Baumgartel wrote:

This must = be a British thing--I've never heard the word used that way in the U.S. =

On 10/10/05, Niall Litchfield < = niall.litchfield@gmail.com> wrote:
On = 10/10/05, VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA@infosys.com> = 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_polit= ics/3236571.stm might give you an idea of the unfortunate = connotations your wording may produce.





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


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