That is about as credible as MSNBC or CNN, when touting Hillary's
victory on the presidential elections. I saw Rachel Maddow saying that
the victory for democrats is practically a sure thing. This ranking is
slightly less credible than that. Ranking which shows that Postgres is
more popular than DB2 is extremely suspect, at least to me. I have
attended both Postgres users meeting and DB2 users meeting and I know
what I saw. I have a bad habit of trusting my own eyes more than
articles on the internet.
And since I studied mathematics a long time ago (graduated in 1984), I
happened to have had a course in statistics. The teacher showed us how
to abuse statistics, without ever telling a lie. It is as simple as
selecting a non-representative sample. If you poll mostly students,
which are very much inclined to lean to dems, your poll will show a
clear victory for Hillary. And this "ranking" doesn't describe either
methodology or the sampling process in detail. I have never trusted
statistics very much and I trust it even less now after this phenomenal
flop with the election polls. The story of the election polls would
deserve a long article, but not on this list and not by me. Now, let's
make Oracle great again. And IBM will pay for that!
On 01/07/2017 03:41 PM, Glauber, Leo wrote:
Check out the rankings - http://db-engines.com/en/ranking
Regards,
Leo
*From:*oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Mladen Gogala
*Sent:* Monday, January 02, 2017 2:40 PM
*To:* kathy duret; Oracle-L Freelists
*Subject:* Re: OT: Job Posts
On 12/28/2016 11:48 AM, kathy duret wrote:
Good Oracle DBA jobs are very hard to find where they just want an
Oracle DBA.
Most posts just say SQL and list a number of platforms.
Most postings are for jobs converting Oracle to Sql Server whereas
10 years ago it was the opposite.
Sic transit gloria mundi. I wish you a happy New Year. BTW, there is also good work to be found with converting Oracle to SAP Hana. SAP Hana is very new, SAP has just released the version 2, and finding good people is hard.
--
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
http://mgogala.freehostia.com
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