Re: Off topic: Need ideas for 'Take your child to work' day 4/25

Barbara.Dungey_at_mdx.com wrote:

> Our office is doing 'Take your child to work' day and the plan is for an
> older child to shadow me for a little while as we do some simple Oracle dba
> or development work.
>
> I'd really like to make this meaningful by having the child do a task that's
> simpler (than optimizing all our procedures) but realistic (instead of being
> relegated to the lunchroom to watch tv) with me for an hour or so.
>
> Has anyone ever done this? I'd appreciate any lessons learned or
> suggestions.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Barbara
>

can you create a test db? if you've got the space on a test server it would be ideal. have them do the typing, and explain what each parameter is for and what it does. then have them sign on and run catalog and catproc and watch all the stuff stream by.

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