RE: When one can call oneself expert

Robert,

"A man's got to know his limitations".
(A quote from a Dirty Harry movie.)

This, to me, is the definition of an expert. You *clearly* understand that you know a lot about Oracle, but that there are things you do not know but have the interest and drive to learn them.

I always think that understanding what I don't know is more important than bragging about what I do know.

One of life's lessons.

Tom

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From: Freeman Robert - IL [mailto:FREEMANR_at_tusc.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:37 PM To: 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org '
Subject: RE: When one can call oneself expert

Personally, I am uncomfortable with the title expert. I've had it put in a Bio or two, but never at my request. Even after 15+ years of Oracle, I still find out every day that:

1. There are things I never quite understood right.
2. Things I didn't know that I thought I should know.
3. That there are things that I knew at one time, that I completley have forgotten (I hate this one the worst I think).

All I know is that I'm fortunate to have a wide set of experiences, so I've done a great number of things. I understand the basics, so the details are not that hard to get to. I can read, and research, and think I have something that I think only trully "experienced" DBA's have, a kind of sixth-sence about problem solving.

Does that make me special? Nope, just means I've been doing this a while. Put me in an ER and I'd be killing people all day long.

RF

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Sent: 12/22/2004 4:17 PM
Subject: RE: When one can call oneself expert

Amen! I have know many Oracle "experts" with really very little knowledge.

When someone calls themselves an "expert" I usually find myself recycling
their resume and looking for another candidate. I usually find these people
are experts at BS and not Oracle at all.

Kathy

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From: Terry Sutton [mailto:terrysutton_at_usa.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:01 PM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: When one can call oneself expert

I was once told "There are no experts, only specialists", and I've seen no
reason to disagree.

--Terry

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Thu Dec 23 2004 - 06:48:57 CST