Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: joel garry Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: an honest post about being an oracle ace Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:21:30 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 66 Message-ID: <4685afa5-1758-4f05-ab54-88d67c8224b9@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.232.112.189 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1233598890 28408 127.0.0.1 (2 Feb 2009 18:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.232.112.189; posting-account=tpQovAkAAABNoH5bwsZAiff2L0zxGwdv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.cambrium.nl On Feb 2, 3:02=A0am, Noons wrote: > Mladen Gogala wrote,on my timestamp of 2/02/2009 9:37 PM: > > > There is a financial crisis going on, many of the banks that were Oracl= e's > > most valued clients are no longer in business and the surviving ones ar= e > > on the dole, which means that they will not be buying new RAC licenses > > anytime soon. > > Don't let that stop "experts" from trying to sell us RAC across the Pacif= ic, for > =A0 our Aus and US centres. =A0I'm quite sure that's gonna work real swel= l for the > DW, particularly with ours being AIX, theirs HPUX, a link between the two= of > 48Mbps and a daily change rate of 500GB on the common tables. > Of course: they wonder why I call them "incompetent, raving lunatics" at = every > meeting... This is a more recent comment by Chen on the blog (in response to a "how best to learn oracle" comment): "Convince the business they urgently need - RAC, Streams, Dataguard, 11g, datawarehouse, materialized views. Whatever you want to learn. Actually, most successful DBAs I know do that." I think she's done some very good stuff, but must take issue with that one. > > =A0> There is an eternal marketing tool to extract some money > > > even from the poorest of clients: snobbism. Becoming an Oracle Ace is > > probably second only to being knighted by her rojal majesty, queen of > > England. It is also much cheaper then getting yourself knighted. There = is > > also a title "Oracle Master" but it isn't at all clear who's better, a > > Master or an Ace. To resolve all doubts, I suggest introducing the titl= e > > of an Oracle Ninja, the best one of them all. When that wears out, as i= t > > inevitably will, there are unused titles of an Oracle Spiderman, Oracle > > Hulk, Oracle Wolverine or Oracle Leeroy Jenkins. > > Oracle Ninja would wear a blue ninja costume with a big red "O" on his > > chest, to make him inconspicuous and un-noticeable to the end users. Bo= y, > > I can't wait for the Halloween! > > ROFL! > I gotta give it to you, Mladen: you crack me up, buddy! > Miss your humour at oracle-l , it's all entirely too "serious" there. > They'll all be Hulks soon, particularly the ones asking "what's dual?". LOL! Made me think of "bummer of a birthmark, Hal." (anyone who doesn't know, google it). jg -- @home.com is bogus. "Leeroy Jenkins at Amazon 4000+ Brands at up to 40% off!" - Yeah, I had to google it.