Ha hah, brilliant.


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Sent: 14 February 2002 03:58
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On Consultant Topic

Interesting one....
=======================


It's all about an intelligent consultant...

Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after
his sheep on the 
edge of 
a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Jeep Cherokee
screeches to a halt 
next 
to him. The driver, a young man dressed in a suit and
Ray-Ban glasses, 
gets 
out and asks the shepherd "If I guess how many sheep
you have, will you 
give 
me one of them?"

The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the
sheep grazing 
and 
says, "All right."

The young man parks the car, connects the notebook and
the mobile, 
enters a 
NASA site, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a
data base and 60 
Excel 
tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150-page
report on his 
high-tech mini-printer. He then turns to the shepherd
and says "You 
have 
exactly 1586 sheep here."

The shepherd answers, "That's correct, you can have
your sheep. The 
young 
man takes the sheep and puts it in the back of his
jeep."

The shepherd looks at him and asks "If I guess your
profession, will 
you 
return my sheep to me?"

The young man answers "Yes, why not."

The shepherd says, "You are a consultant!"

"How did you know?" asks the young man.

"Very simple," answers the shepherd "First, you come
here without being 
called. Second, you charge me a sheep to tell me
something I already 
knew. 
Third, you do not understand anything about what I do,
because you took 
my 
dog!"


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--- oracle dba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There is no problem with asking him and I will for
> sure ask the
> consultant about the reason behind this.
> 
> But here is the frustrating part.  The consultant
> have no knowledge of
> the application!  He is brought in by the hosting
> company which we use
> to help us deploy the application.
> And he is trying to do too much and in this case
> without understanding
> the application.  Anyways, this is a obviously a
> separate issue that
> I have to work out who is responsible for what.
> 
> >From: "Grabowy, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: RE: The use of schemas
> >Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:44:17 -0800
> >
> >There is the three schema method for security and
> integrity purposes, not
> >quite sure why you would break it up the
> consultant's way.
> >
> >Is there a problem with asking the consultant about
> the split?  What are 
> >the
> >advantages?  Is there some business requirement? 
> S(he) may know of some
> >requirement that you are not aware of??
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:09 PM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Our consultant has presented a schema design which
> I have never seen
> >(not that I have seen all the designs in the world)
> but I also failed
> >to see the advantage.
> >
> >Basically our application consists of 35 tables and
> all is under one
> >schema named after the application.  Granted, the
> application has many
> >components such as billing tables, event tables
> etc.
> >
> >Now the consultant wants to split all 35 tables
> into as many as 8
> >different schemas!  Such as a billing schema, a
> event schema.  To me
> >this only complicates the whole thing as now you
> have to manage 8
> >schemas and manage many grants, synonyms.  Not to
> mention some tables
> >are not clear cut as which component it belongs to.
>  I just don't see
> >what this buys us.
> >
> >Has anyone seen such a approach? And what's the
> benefit of doing so?
> >
> >Thanks
> >--
> >Author: oracle dba
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