- Complains about these "new fangled stored procedures".
- Rants about the good old days of Oracle PE (Punchcard Edition).
- Thinks Thomas Kyte is a whipper-snapper (even with the beard).
- Still demands all Oracle manuals in hardcopy.
- Has a service request with Oracle Support to forward port the RBO to 11g.
- Knows about Edgar's secret 13th rule.
- Thinks Oracle Support went downhill when they moved the HQ to Redwood Shores in 1989.
- Has larry@rsi.com in his address book.
- Still replaces blank lines in PL/SQL with single line comments.
- Has an open 10 year old Oracle Support "TAR" to fix a bug in version 7 which he/she wont close because of the "principal of the thing."
(Yep, still a slow week while I prepare for OOW and the AUSOUG conference, as well as teach a SQL course. I promise no more "DBA bashing" ;)
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Pah! These newbies strutting their punce punched cards!...
Give me some proper punched tape and a patch board and I'll show you some REEEEEAL dba'ing!
And if that doesn't scare you enough:
Happy Halloween!
> Still replaces blank lines in PL/SQL with single line comments
Man! Come on, what's wrong with that? Now you're making me feel paranoid.
Whaddya mean "no more DBA bashing"?
Bah, you take all the fun out of life ;-)
I wish I could work out what this site said when it cross posted?
you can use google translate translate.google.com
Thanks to google I know who is Edgar ;-)
Thanks Laurent, I'd tried a few translators with no success, but Google's hits the spot, with such translations as:
"Each is absolute proof of just cattle."
....I'd never heard DBAs described as cattle before, but it seems to fit ;)
Great to hear my humour crosses all language barriers!
CM.
well, you made me google again, I did not know what was a cattle in French ;-)
Ah, I could have told you that. Which reminds me of my favourite French qoute:
"Fermez la Vache!" ;)
There's a French animation to go with this. I'll see if I can find it.
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