DBA $$ with OCP

[TimHall]

I can type with my left hand! Does this make me even better at my job? ;-)

I have no conclusive proof for the following, their just things I picked up over the years:

On average left handed people die 5 years earlier than their right-handed counterparts. Apparantly this is due to industrial accidents relating to non-left-hand-friendly machinery. Bloody right handed mice!

Being left handed is associated with minor brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation during childbirth.

Left handed people generally have quicker reaction times and better hand-eye coordination since signals go from the right hand side of the brain directly to the left hand. Right handed people have to send the signals from the right side of the brain to left side, then down to the right arm.

Being right-handed I have an excuse for being crap

[Raminder]

Originally quoted by Tim Hall

Being left handed is associated with minor brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation during childbirth.

I must add that this is just one of the many theories for left handedness. The evidence is circumstantial, since almost 30% of mentally retarded children are left-handed - which is three times the normal statistic for left-handedness. There is no conclusive proof as yet.
In my personal life, I have seen very brilliant people left-handed.

[TheSlob]

I knew it!! I'm left-handed. I've always thought I was special.

[TimHall]

Originally posted by Raminder
In my personal life, I have seen very brilliant people left-handed.

Not all brain damage makes people stupid.

[TimHall]

Originally posted by TheSlob
I knew it!! I'm left-handed. I've always thought I was special.

I always thought you were special too

[Tarry]

I'm ambidextrous!!!
In my bio exam in highschool i drew with my left hand and wrote with my write hand simulaneously!!!!
Try it, it's not easy......i don't know how it works up there with the grey and the white matter but i guess there must be a better disk partitioning...

[Shestakov]

Originally posted by julian
I agree with Tarrysingh and Tim. I have the same worries but it is clear that Oracle is going the way of making the DB less and less DBA-dependent. However, making all those new additions, they probably do not comprehend the fact that it will take more and more effords for beginners to learn Oracle. There might come a tuning command in Oracle 12i:

ALTER DATABASE GET BETTER;

but there will probably too many new issues with Oracle 12i that companies will still need a DBA.

On the other hand, I suggest, do not look or try to look too much into the future for all you might see is a granite stone with your name on in....

I little bit don't agree with command ALTER DATABASE GET BETTER;
Somebody checked # of init parameters in 6 --> 7 --> 8--> 8i--> 9i
or # of statistics or # sql commands and options in ALTER DATABASE or ALTER SYSTEM commands (not only ALTER TABLE ..)
I think DBA will have work a long, long time.