Re: List of largest DBs in the world?

true story, as in you were there and actually heard it, or you heard it from a friend who had it happen to his cousin?

• Original Message ----- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> To: <bcoulam_at_gmail.com> Cc: "Oracle Discussion List" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:59 PM Subject: Re: List of largest DBs in the world?

> True story
> OCP Course, Day 1. Participants invited to introduce themselves with
names,
> employer, version and database size. (All male course obviously; female
dbas
> would count the number of relationships or something <g,d&r>)
> Participant 'Hi, I'm Bill, I work for the MOD* on version xxx, my
database
> is zero bytes'.
> rest of course 'Incredulous faces'
> Participant ' Yep, my job is to come in every morning and do a rowcount on
> each table; it is always zero - if it wasn't zero i am not allowed to look
> at the data but must call....'
> rest of course 'huh?'
> Participant 'The db receives classified data from military aircraft each
> night, transforms it and moves it elsewhere, then deletes it. database
> operators don't get clearance to read the data'
> rest of course 'So why are you here?'
> Participant- deadpan 'You're kidding right, you'd have an unqualified
> professional working on a database important to national security? Policy
> states we all get qualified.'
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
> *MOD = Ministry of defence
>
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