I posted what I thought was a funny picture on my blog.... http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com/2009/10/oow-2009-and-appology.html Robert G. Freeman Oracle ACE Ask me about on-site Oracle Training! RMAN, DBA, Tuning, you name it! Author: Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY SOON! OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide (Sybex) Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Other various titles Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com ________________________________ From: "Allen, Brandon" <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "jkstill@xxxxxxxxx" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>; Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, October 14, 2009 4:00:23 PM Subject: RE: What I saw at Open World 2009 Thanks for sharing Jared. It sounds like the DBA 2.0 presentation was pretty misleading. I agree with your assessment on the validity of their tests (based solely on your notes – I didn’t attend the presentation). The other big problem I find with “DBA 2.0s” is that they can be completely clueless when their GUI doesn’t work, e.g. they don’t know what v$ views to look at, how to run RMAN, exp/imp, or datapump, how to format SQL*Plus output, etc. I try to be neither a 1.0 nor a 2.0, but a combination of both – using either the command-line or the GUI depending on which one is better suited for the task at hand. Regards, Brandon ________________________________ Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.