Re: How I save Cingular Wireless USD 30M

I must say I find this a somewhat bizarre contribution to the list. Normally in a technical posting to this list it would be prudent to mention what the problem was, how you diagnosed it, and how you fixed it. In the case of a deadlock which can be traced, it would be normal to illustrate this process
- or why it failed you. Dreams are well and good, the benzene ring structure
springs to mind, but normally there's a follow up and a methodology to investigate the hypothesis. The details of this seem to be missing here - you say that you found a script on metalink for example, but don't mention the note number. It found some orphaned indexes (The word segment is redundant here) - I'm not sure what one of those would be - an intact index left when a table was dropped? I've never seen one of those. It would be a curious thing indeed, certainly worthy of describing in more detail. You also describe being able to give a database a life expectancy - I'd love more or indeed any detail on that. In short from a technical point of view you don't actually tell us anything.

The alternative I suppose is that this is a disguised job search. The trouble with those of course is they tend not to work that well. I did take a look at your resume though. Stuff that I would look for would be a concise summary of your skills and abilities, your job history shows a number of diverse and in demand skills - but it doesn't really tell me what I'm getting. With the exception of the 30m saving - and believe me as a hiring manager I'd want more confirmation of that than a post to this list merits - your resume doesn't tell me how you will contribute to the business except as a techie. Incidentally since both the resume and this conversation will be indexed by google It would definitely be good to have the Oracle skill sets listed out in an easy to read format on the resume - my gut reaction is that the version 2 reference below is hyperbole given that that version was 12 years old when you started your career (and almost no-one bought it) but if your experience really does cover all of Oracle's history selling that in the resume would be helpful.

So in summary - if this was intended as a technical post then perhaps a rethink about what you can and cannot say might produce a more helpful contribution, that is one production dbas can use. if intended as an advert
- try not to make a habit of it and perhaps a resume rethink might help.

best regards

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Niall Litchfield
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