Re: Designing database tables for performance?

On Feb 28, 5:34 pm, "joel garry" <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> > What was "Go Oracle user of the month"? Clueless here
>
> One of the earlier collection of moderated BBS's was Compuserve. You
> would tell the command line to GO <whereever>, the Oracle one was
> pretty active and helpful. Celko and Noons were there, I think
> Michael Abbey, and lots of others I can't recall offhand, some of
> whom may still be around. I haven't used that aspect of Compuserve
> for a number of years (I think the name has changed for Oracle support
> forum), but I still use my same account daily, even if it is part of
> AOL. Being user of the month wasn't like being an Oracle ACE, or
> mentioned on oramag but it did come with a free month of connection
> fees or something, and bragging rights.

Now I understand. It's a little dated of a reference.

Some of us were still hanging out in the IBM mainframe field at that time.

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>
> > Not sure exactly who the other person is.
>
> That's pretty funny. Tom Kyte's blog referred to him for a while.
> Hey, I thought you were involved in the discussions on one of hjr's
> now-gone sites Fabian got involved in... hard to remember who's been
> where, especially with aliases and people being kicked off.

So many of those sites that have gone up in smoke. People being kicked off ? ... you must be joking ... at least that didn't happen to me eh?

>
> For some reason, people totally ignore the parts where I say I mostly
> agree with Date and Pascal. The realities of the business world
> simply make them irrelevant for many practical solutions.
>

I did buy Date's ( fairly recent I think ) "Database in Depth" and it's a good book for any serious DBA. I should read it again probably.

>
>
> > Joel's usually pretty reasonable but gets somewhat excited and
> > sometimes hostile about the changing nature of IT employment in terms
> > of contractors and work being moved off shore.
>
> Excited? Sure, this is our livelihood we're talking about!
>
> Hostile? Well, perhaps. I'm hopefully not as hostile as I project,
> except when I'm talking about negative personal experience (and
> funnily enough, there's stuff I haven't posted about). I do embarass
> myself at times. But it's overcompensation, if I didn't make an
> effort to communicate I would totally shy out.

I said "sometimes" ... Received on Wed Feb 28 2007 - 17:15:17 CST