Happy Holidays
- From: Paula Stankus <paulastankus@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:30:08 -0800 (PST)
I just wanted to send a quick note of thanks and say that I have appreciated
this larger community of sages and experts to keep me motivated, learning and
out of the fire as I have transitioned back from management and SQL Server into
my first RDBMS, Oracle. I was able to make that transition back successfully
under some difficult conditions and although I have been balancing that with
family in an environment that is wholefully understaffed things are going very
well.
There are times that this forum is the only objective, technical area where I
can say "This is reasonable, right? This isn't rocket science, this is truly
best-practices and not just something I am just being idealistic about, people
are doing this in other places?" It is also a place where if I do not have the
right idea I can expect to be corrected, sometimes with humour, often with
patience, often with many different solutions and mostly in a professional way.
I just want to say thanks and best wishes to everyone and their families.
As I get some additional staff on my team and my children start getting
older, I hope to be able to pay back in kind. I have mentored and am mentoring
junior DBA's working with me, colleagues who are DBA's in other organizations
citing the original source of the idea which generally is one of the Oak Table
but is often somebody from this group. Sooner or later as my 10 and 7 year old
get older, I will have lots of experience and more time. I plan to mentor much
more, hoping to make a difference to people by using what I have learned over
the years that is of any value. I will remember to be kind, patient and really
think about what I am writing. I will show people the best sources rather then
just giving them the answer or thinking I came up with the idea on my own. It
is funny how often I freely do that now. Hey, don't believe me. Read this
book from this author who by the way has X number of years of experience, was
in this position working for Oracle, owns this
company, yadayad. These guys are far better than me. Heck, don't listen to
me at all but please, please read this book or that book or see this article or
see this stream of e-mails and who is responding and what they are
saying.:)....:):):)
Thanks again!
Happy Holidays.!! :):)
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