Re: Lunch: I'm a DBA - ask me anything
- From: Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 13:56:17 -0500
Jeff,
You can have one too Start one up!
These are pretty great that and I know folks are thankful that Jeremy
started these in the Chicago Land area.
The only downside I saw was a lunch hour is not enough time once you start
talking shop! :)
Alfredo
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Jeff C <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What a great idea. Wish we had something like this in Southern
> California/Orange County area.
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Jeremy Schneider <
> jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We've got these dba lunch meetups going in Chicago and we tried something
>> new last week. Started lunch by "introducing" one of the members. The
>> interviewee answers a few questions, and we keep the discussion around each
>> question to a few minutes. Fun way to start lunch and there was still
>> plenty of time for the usual techy chatter afterwards.
>>
>> My question for this (oracle-l) list: if you could ask a DBA anything,
>> what would you ask?
>>
>> Here are the four questions we've used so far:
>> 1. how'd you get started with the oracle db?
>> 2. what's the most interesting system or application you've worked on in
>> your career? can you tell us a bit about the architecture?
>> 3. who's your #1 influencer, mentor, or author?
>> 4. what's the #1 thing you need to learn so you'll still have a job in
>> 5-10 years?
>>
>> BTW - lunch is in deerfield today, schaumburg tomorrow and downtown next
>> wednesday. Just in case anyone is interested in joining. :)
>>
>> -J
>>
>> --
>> http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
>>
>
>
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