From: wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au   
      
   On 11/05/2016 1:13 @wiz, Mladen Gogala wrote:   
      
      
   >   
   > Still, this is the only place where it is possible to publish some   
   > things. For instance, Jonathan Lewis published his thinking about scoring   
   > of the speakers on the conferences. I tried leaving a comment on his   
   > blog, saying that scoring of the speakers should also include the stoning   
   > option, since many of those "expert sessions" at the conferences are just   
   > a huge waste of time and the angry attendees should really have an option   
   > to stone the speaker, regardless of whether he uttered the word "Jehova"   
   > or not. The comment has promptly vanished from the Scratchpad, I wonder   
   > why.   
      
   HAHA!   Welcome to the club of the "Bad DBAs".  :)   
      
   We are so because we don't follow guru's gospel without question.   
   And of course we are all "uneducated" because the best educator in the   
   world (who has never taught a thing in his life) says so...   
      
   Mind you: Jonathan at least does a lot of good stuff.   
   I always have a lot of time for him - and quite a few others.   
      
   Unlike other "table sitting bulls" (and cows) who have said nothing of   
   any use in more than a decade.  Other than join the "bad dba!" chorus.   
      
   Ah well, wait for the comments that will for sure be part of a blog very   
   soon now. One of the reasons I stopped blogging: not worth it...   
      
   In fact, the entire "Oracle community" is not worth it. Hence why I   
   stopped my activities.   
      
   Say whatever you want but when 35 "active community members" confirm   
   they are attending a meetup with Chris Date - one of the fathers of   
   databases as we know them today - and only 7 show up in the day,   
   something is veeeeeeery wrong.   
      
   I actually ended up inviting the next door meetup of MSSQL DBAs to joins   
   us and listen to Chris.  They did, quite a few.   
   Better yet: they knew full well who Chris was and why it was a unique   
   opportunity. Unlike most of the "Oracle dba"s we had there...   
      
   Ah well, I guess all that bull from Oracle and HP during the late 90s   
   and early 00s that dbas were worthless has finally attracted some   
   followers.   
      
   Mind you: they also lost the best promoters of their RDBMS product.  But   
   don't listen to me, just read carefully their next financial   
   statement...  Talk about shooting one's foot off...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)