Wow, i guess it has been that long. Good to hear from people who've been around since the beginnings :) joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Consultant Nationwide Investments Data Engineering and Administration (Work) 614-677-1668 614-312-6715 From: "John Kanagaraj" <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx> To: bbel5@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 11/07/2008 11:35 AM Subject: Re: Greetings from an old Oracle-l'er! Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Welcome back Bambi. It has been about 10 years actually - Jared and I talked about this over the ACE dinner at the recent Oracle Open World. Jared created Oracle-l in 1998 'cos the other listserv sucked, and we traced the progress over the many hosting services..... There were a bunch of us who migrated over from the Quest PL/SQL and DBA pipelines to Oracle-l and we were all excited because the CBO was coming on stream in Oracle 7.x :) John On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Bellows, Bambi (Comsys) <bbel5@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Folks! > > > > I'm on a gig where I get to be a DBA most of the time again (as opposed to > an Apps DBA, which, as you know, is completely different)… so I thought I > would come back to the old stomping grounds and partake in the technical > conversations that have been oracle-l's mainstay for the past 15 years or > so. Gosh, has it really been that long? Anyway, for all you old-timers, > hello, and for all you new folks, um, please ignore this intrusion into your > emailbox… > > > > Take care and talk to you soon! > > Bambi. > > -- John Kanagaraj <>< http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkanagaraj http://jkanagaraj.wordpress.com (Sorry - not an Oracle blog!) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l