Re: Getting an Answer Is One Thing, Learning Is Another

"Martin Doherty" <martin.doherty_at_oracle.com> wrote in message news:3D517D06.C9BA13E9_at_oracle.com...
> Niall, you're too modest. I admit I didn't research the list of names
(thanks
> to Daniel for helping amend some notable omissions, to which I must add
> Anurag), just jotted down the first few that floated up from the murky
depths.
> However, this very fact tells me that you are an active group participant,
you
> supply answers as well as questions, and your postings are intelligent,
concise
> and helpful. You don't have to be an expert to be a valued contributor.
Please
> accept my apologies for including your name without permission.
>
> BTW your reference to 1970's musical Heroes couldn't possibly apply to
David
> Bowie, whose illustrious and prolific musical career spans from the 1960's
to
> the present day. ;)

Thanks again for the kind words. I'm not offended, but I *really* don't want to give the impression that Oracle is some sort of technological God to be tended by a select few, whilst everyone else follows holy writ (or something they read somewhere nce anyway). Any reasonably intelligent and computer literate folk can understand it and harness it, it'd be a shame if there was a cult of names around a piece of software thats supposed to help us manage data.

As for Bowie perhaps he's best left to Mr Foote of this parish. It wouldn't do to encourager les autres after all.

>
> Martin
>
> Niall Litchfield wrote:

<snip>
> > > Most of the questions appearing on the newsgroup are of the type
> > > described in your article, and they are usually answered (cheerfully,
> > > sarcastically or brutally) with either the specific information
> > > requested or an admonition to consult the Oracle documentation, but
> > > often with the important rider added: "Tell us what it is that you are
> > > trying to accomplish, and we can advise you on the best techniques to
> > > use, and why". Not only that, but they are always striving to expand
the
> > > fundamental knowledge of all questioners, to better equip them to
solve
> > > their own problems in future, and to eliminate the damaging
assumptions
> > > and myths which so often dominate our choices in a landscape of
> > > unmanageable complexity.
> >
> > I'd like to hope

Ooops and as for posting without finishing the sentence...... Doh!

I think, I have more to say on this and the attitude people who should know better have to technology but perhaps it can wait for now.

--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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