Gosh, I hope its not too late to write my comments, Juan, basically, sometimes you study and prepare many years so you can = write (somewhere next to your name) that you are an expert, but you = know.. when you become an expert you'll realize that is unnecessary = writing it for the others to notice.. they already knew it..=20 Someone said this: "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how = we behave when we don't know what to do". =3D) -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas Day Sent: Jueves, 23 de Diciembre de 2004 06:19 p.m. To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: When one can call oneself expert I find that my best answer is, "I don't know, yet, but I will." I don't have the answer at my fingertips but I do know where in the documentation to look for them (and which mail list to ask if the documentation doesn't have the answer). I would guess that being seen as an Oracle expert consists of having made all the big mistakes somewhere else and not repeating them on this job. BTW - I just found out that if you have a Java app querrying your database and you have lazy Java programmers then you'd better use US7ASCII as your character set. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l