Oracle-L: RE: Interesting Perspective on DBAs

From: April Wells <awells_at_csedge.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 11:01:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005A2396.20030524110141@fatcity.com>

Amen to that. It is amazing how easy it is to aim that gun at my own feet. BUT, once I have shot myself, I can then, with utmost confidence, tell someone else what happens if you use that particular gun to shoot that particular foot...

Then I go on to find new guns and uninjured places to shoot!

ajw

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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 5/24/2003 1:26 PM

both :)

and only then do we add in the duhvelopers and damagers

I can shoot myself in the foot better than anyone else can!

"Daniel W. Fink" <optimaldba_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> A group of high school students enrolled in the Oracle Internet
> Academy
> attended RMOUG's Training Days conference. As part of their
> assignment,
> they had to write an essay about what they gained from the trip,
> parts
> of which were published in SQL> UPDATE_RMOUG, our local magazine. The
>
> essays were all very interesting (most were amazed that they knew
> stuff
> we adults were just learning about), but the best quote comes from
> Patrick, a senior.
> "I also came to appreciate the real lives of database administrators,
>
> programmers, and developers in a couple of great sessions. First, we
> went to "How NOT to Be a DBA: Top 20 Critical Mistakes" [by Rachel
> Carmichael] and heard some interesting war stories. Then, we went to
> the
> hilarous "Heroes and Zeroes:Thirty Years of Database Disasters." [by
> Dave Ensor] They both made me wonder: is a DBA's worst enemy him- or
> herself, or his or her peers?"
>
> Out of the mouths of babes...
>
> --
> Daniel W. Fink
> http://www.optimaldba.com
>
>
>
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