not learning from a worst practice is definitely a worst practice :) Henry -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of bill thater Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:07 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: standards > Anyway, Cary's point was (I think) to focus on worst practices instead > of best practices. When you constantly look for best practices you will > always be falling behind reality, and there will be no impetus for > moving the bar up. If you look for worst practices (things not to do), > then you'll learn and grow and become smarter and you can steadily add > to the list... or just move the bar up, up and away. so then what we need are worst practices papers and not best pratices ones? oh good i can do that, i've done LOTS of worst practices.;-) now if i've learned from them is another question entirely.;-) -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA shrek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "I'm going to work my ticket if I can..." -- Gilwell song ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine (Song of Solomon 6:3) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------