true story, as in you were there and actually heard it, or you heard it from a friend who had it happen to his cousin? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bcoulam@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Oracle Discussion List" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:59 PM Subject: Re: List of largest DBs in the world? > True story > OCP Course, Day 1. Participants invited to introduce themselves with names, > employer, version and database size. (All male course obviously; female dbas > would count the number of relationships or something <g,d&r>) > Participant 'Hi, I'm Bill, I work for the MOD* on version xxx, my database > is zero bytes'. > rest of course 'Incredulous faces' > Participant ' Yep, my job is to come in every morning and do a rowcount on > each table; it is always zero - if it wasn't zero i am not allowed to look > at the data but must call....' > rest of course 'huh?' > Participant 'The db receives classified data from military aircraft each > night, transforms it and moves it elsewhere, then deletes it. database > operators don't get clearance to read the data' > rest of course 'So why are you here?' > Participant- deadpan 'You're kidding right, you'd have an unqualified > professional working on a database important to national security? Policy > states we all get qualified.' > -- > Niall Litchfield > Oracle DBA > http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com > *MOD = Ministry of defence > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l