Well, good, now that we have that cleared up. Don't get me wrong, I do like your keen sense of humour and sarcasm - when I know you're joking and at times its hard to tell.
I've hesitated to learn Perl - don't know why, but now I find I have to know it to do my job better, esp when I'm working with Oracle. Shell programming is also getting lots of attention from me. I worked with PostgreSQL when it first came out and then I forgot about it. Thanks for the insight. Saira -----Original Message----- Mladen Gogala Sent: December 17, 2003 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Or maybe you are trying to tell me to read between the lines... I'm not. I was just kidding. I don't know any of this stuff (SAP, Siebel, Oracle Apps) and I do make my living. Frankly, I don't like specialists, because they end up just like pandas: no bamboo shoots, and they starve. Black bears and racoons are more to my liking: they eat anything (one of my neighbors lost two cats when she moved from NYC to CT) and thrive. Being an oracle DBA looked like a safe proposition just two years ago. Now I'm doing lots of perl, some PHP, linux, samba, I started playing with PostgresSQL (cool stuff) and I made oracle database just one among my skills. I'm quickly honing skills of a standup comedian, too. Please, do not misunderestimate me. My career advice to you is: do whatever sells. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mladen Gogala 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: Saira Somani-Mendelin 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).
