Re: you ass

In article <W8Ey8.49449$Rw2.3887600_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, you said (and I quote):

> and critical app in Informix. Nobody ever told me it was to be in Oracle. I
> never used Oracle. I couldn't spell Oracle. But I know 4 months work down
> the toilet when I see it.)

Hehehe! We had similar starts. I was getting a benchmark together for Prime's equivalent to CICS - Primeway - with a codasyl database under it. Then someone walked in and said: here is this new database Prime wants to use. It's relational. It's called Oracle and Prime USA reckons it's the database they want to buy to replace Information (their Pick product). I had to laugh, but then the bloke said he was dead serious. :-(

That was V4 Oracle. Was fun to learn relational design in one week and get the benchmark going. Then things started to unroll from there. I found out that I kinda liked the internal organization of Oracle, with the tablespaces, the extents, the rollback, the after image, etc. It made sense, unlike most of the other relational "databases" in those days. Oh yes, and indexes were separate from data (!!!!) :-D

> you get the chance?". to which I said, (XXXX), you're married, you have
> children. When you come home, they all recognize the man walking in the door
> and aren't calling 911, pressing the ADT panic alarm button, or spraying
> this strange intruder with MACE. Are you INSANE? I can't even have a plastic
> philodendron at home because it would die of neglect!!", etc. Despite my

Yup, know the feeling only too well. I got out of the "star" circle 9 years ago, I wanted the kids to recognize their dad. I'm not as rich as I could have been, but the kids love me and I love them. Rich enough in my book.

> But some people here take it as given that they're entitled to free advice
> from people that get paid (sometimes quite a lot) for what they know and can
> do, compound this presumption by not even making much effort to write a
> question that can be understood, and finally, have a huge hissy fit, when
> someone hitting the question first discovers it's total garbage, after
> turning it around sideways, looking on the other side of the page, and still
> can't make heads or tails of it. And these are the ones written employing a
> sufficient number of words in English to even begin that task.

Amen! Some are real "pearls". And some are so clearly "plants" it even hurts to read them...

>
> I will not further belabor the point, but it's a lot like a phone call:
> "Oracle doesn't work" that turns out to be the network cable isn't plugged
> into the network adapter card, or they don't even have one.

I wish I had a $ for every time I've heard that fantastic "Oracle doesn't work" crap. Wouldn't be working now...

Always feel like replying:

"Congrats! Here is the most used RDBMS product in the world and you just reached the conclusion that everyone is wrong, the darn thing doesn't work and it's all a hoax. You must be a ****ing genius!"

Or words to that effect, depending on which mood I'm in. As you said, no one is perfect...

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Nuno Souto
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