The programmer is a devout Christian who knows that God is One but there are 3 divine personalities? That was the reason for Sigmund Fraud (misspelled on purpose) to come up with his 3 layers of the personality. The history is full of applications of number 3, inspired by the holly trinity. It was about time that someone put God in the database. The next thing for Oracle is to switch to prayer-based technical support. Outsourcing to heaven certainly beats outsourcing to India when in penny by penny comparison. I would elaborate the idea of the dead programmers society, but this rant is now long enough. Repent, o sinner! -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 PS: I understood this as a personal challenge that could not go unanswered. It would be ungodly, and God has recently gained in popularity, especially in the buckeye state. --- -----Original Message----- From: Paul Drake [mailto:bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:46 PM To: Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: Three is the number, the number shall be three ... Might anyone care to wager why a developer at Oracle would use 3 iterations of flushing the shared_pool during execution of the jserver.sql script in creation of the JServer subsequent to database creation? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l