I don't want to turn this into an OT post, but I beg to differ. When I worked in Siebel Expert Services, I had to be able to install the app on DB2 UDB, MS squeal server, and Oracle. BTW, I was hired on the strength on my Oracle skills. Well, that turned me into a DBB (DB babysitter) instead of a DBA for both DB2 and squeal server, and if there were tasks more complicated than write a SQL statement, create a new user, create a table or index, on DB2 and MS squeal server, I was nothing more than a DBB, but if there were performance problems at a customer with the application running on Oracle, I was requested by name to come clean up, where the client would rather wait a few days for me to become available than for Siebel to send in a hot shot DB2 whiz-kid, who on Oracle became a novice at best.
Also I should not have chosen cooking as an analogy, because it is one area where my blatant ignorance on the subject is easily detected. But I know that you take some ingredients, do some stuff to it (chop, slice, dice, whatever), optionally heat it and mix it all together, and serve it. Holy cow ! I think I have just mastered the art of this cooking thing too, what a productive day this is for me. :-) Ferenc Mantfeld Dreaming costs you nothing. Not dreaming costs you everything. ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:28 AM > Curiously, the basics are common across styles of cooking. You have > to learn to coax the flavors out of the fresh ingredients and transform > them into the proper texture and finish. Once you've mastered Italian > cooking, you may not be a top notch German cook, but you're probably > just a recipe or two away from being able to produce a very nice > German meal... > > Databases have a certain similarity. If heading an Oracle project and > I was given the choice between two people to work on my project, one > having been the lead architect for a top notch product based on > Sybase, and the other being an OCP that had worked on lack luster > products, it would be hard not to pick the former. > > > > F> Following the same logic..... if I learn to cook a good Italian dish, then I > F> must automatically be an expert in preparing top-class Chinese, German, > F> Malay, Hungarian and French cuisine .... Yeah, right ! > > F> Ferenc Mantfeld > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Robert Eskridge > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ferenc Mantfeld INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
