Re: [Newbie] Oracle

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 02:41:02 GMT
Message-ID: <2Nvle.1817$kS3.1272@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>

HansF wrote:

> On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:25:43 -0700, DJP interested us by writing:
>
>

>>Hi,
>>
>>I had a n00b question about Oracle.[...]

>
> Somewhat similar to automotives: you can be a city driver, a race car
> driver, a mechanic, an engine performance engineer, etc. etc. ad nauseum
>
> With Oracle, you can be: a data entry clerk; an Excel or Access aware
> super user (who will never understand why things don't work the same in
> Oracle as in Access); a 'SQL' programmer; an typical Oracle app
> programmer; a good Oracle app programer; a typical DBA; an Oracle DBA; a
> JOAT.
>

[...]

I eagerly looked up JOAT at acronymfinder.com, hoping to find a new, cool beans, alternative to JAPH. ;-)

Hmm, well I haven't been using Oracle since 1984 but consider myself a JOAT and MOS (master of several). For a newbie, I think referring to 55.000 pages of documentation is somewhat off-putting -- I would refer them instead to "2-Day DBA" for a first taste.

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10742/toc.htm

--Mark Bole
"Are we not a guild? We are OCP!" <-- sung to tune of "Jocko Homo" by Devo. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=3062 Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 21:41:02 CDT