Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > On 02/05/2004 03:54:17 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: > >> If you are the only DBA, things get hairy fast. Phone ringing off >> the hook, people standing around your desk asking questions like >> "should we bounce Oracle?". > > Isn't that why people have invented firearms? Situations like that > made me into an NRA fan. This can be summarized as: the larger caliber > you have, the less inclined people are to hang out around your desk. i always found a Katana(sp?) hanging on the wall of my cube rather effective.;-) -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA "I'm going to work my ticket if I can..." -- Gilwell song william.thater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. - Thomas Alva Edison ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------