Re: Re[2]: Know 1 database, know them all?

I don't want to turn this into an OT post, but I beg to differ. When I worked in Siebel Expert Services, I had to be able to install the app on DB2 UDB, MS squeal server, and Oracle. BTW, I was hired on the strength on my Oracle skills. Well, that turned me into a DBB (DB babysitter) instead of a DBA for both DB2 and squeal server, and if there were tasks more complicated than write a SQL statement, create a new user, create a table or index, on DB2 and MS squeal server, I was nothing more than a DBB, but if there were performance problems at a customer with the application running on Oracle, I was requested by name to come clean up, where the client would rather wait a few days for me to become available than for Siebel to send in a hot shot DB2 whiz-kid, who on Oracle became a novice at best.

Also I should not have chosen cooking as an analogy, because it is one area where my blatant ignorance on the subject is easily detected. But I know that you take some ingredients, do some stuff to it (chop, slice, dice, whatever), optionally heat it and mix it all together, and serve it. Holy cow ! I think I have just mastered the art of this cooking thing too, what a productive day this is for me. :-)

Ferenc Mantfeld
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> Curiously, the basics are common across styles of cooking. You have
> to learn to coax the flavors out of the fresh ingredients and transform
> them into the proper texture and finish. Once you've mastered Italian
> cooking, you may not be a top notch German cook, but you're probably
> just a recipe or two away from being able to produce a very nice
> German meal...
>
> Databases have a certain similarity. If heading an Oracle project and
> I was given the choice between two people to work on my project, one
> having been the lead architect for a top notch product based on
> Sybase, and the other being an OCP that had worked on lack luster
> products, it would be hard not to pick the former.
>
>
>
> F> Following the same logic..... if I learn to cook a good Italian dish,
then I
> F> must automatically be an expert in preparing top-class Chinese, German,
> F> Malay, Hungarian and French cuisine .... Yeah, right !
>
> F> Ferenc Mantfeld
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