Re: oracle query questions

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:50:44 -0700
Message-ID: <1184806243.833398@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

Paul Linehan wrote:
> Richard Piasecki wrote:
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>>> Why would anyone learn an obsolete product?

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>> Nice, Daniel. Very, very nice. :-) :-)

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> One could also ask why so many people on this newsgroup
> are so patronising and condescending to those who aren't
> running (with NDA of course) Oracle 14k on a Cray 115ZZP
> (whose existence they can't discuss - NSA restrictions you
> know) in a dataserver centre that has 15 petabyte db's as
> standard, couldn't one?
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> Would that be nice too?
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> Indeed the question from the OP leads me to wonder whether
> they need Oracle at all, and whether they couldn't learn
> what they are enquiring about from an Open Source db, which
> would run on an older machine, not have any licence issues and
> still have a *_lot_* to teach about the basics of db's.
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> Paul...

Lets see Paul:

Go to http://otn.oracle.com
click on Download
click on Database
get the Enterprise Edition of 10g
which part of that is too hard for someone intending to learn Oracle?

Hardly condescending. There is zero value in learning Oracle 8i.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Wed Jul 18 2007 - 19:50:44 CDT