Oracle Masters Certification

**hany** · 10-13-2002, 05:11 AM

Originally posted by julian
I became a Senior DBA for the Nokia Corporation.

Wow, congratulations Julian, good for you.

Cheers.

**TimHall** · 10-13-2002, 05:42 AM

Have they given you one of those phones that takes pictures yet?

Remember, don't use it to take pictures of your butt, that's just childish

Cheers

**julian** · 10-13-2002, 09:45 AM

Originally posted by TimHall
Have they given you one of those phones that takes pictures yet?

Remember, don't use it to take pictures of your butt, that's just childish

Cheers

No :-) I have the 9210i (the colourful communicator :-)) Within few months there will be a new Nokia model, a small phone with an integrated camera.

But if I get it, I will NOT take pictures of my butt ;-)

**dknight** · 10-14-2002, 03:15 AM

Congratulations on the job, Julian. That sounds really interesting.

**Tarry** · 10-14-2002, 03:47 AM

Originally posted by julian

Ah, no... :-) They decided to switch from Oracle Parallel Server to SQL Server (money, money, money), so I became a Senior DBA for the Nokia Corporation.

Julian,
Well done.
But If I may ask a little bit, it must have been quite a struggle to convince them from not to choose for SQLServer since they did a lot of investment in you(and others I guess) and in oracle DB (and development as well).

I mean all the migration etc and deployment must also need a lot of investment(Train people, etc)

Don't misunderstand me here as I know I too get tempted to "Run down my current employer" when I'm sitting in the interview room. I mean as a technologist,If you will, you might have some vital technical issues that you'd want to get across the managements heads rather than a price tag.

But whatever , I guess you're nicely settled with the Nokia people.

Originally posted by julian

But if I get it, I will NOT take pictures of my butt ;-)

And for heavens sake don't take it to any of the middle eastern countries on vacation...

[Edited by Tarry on 10-14-2002 at 03:53 AM]

**julian** · 10-14-2002, 04:49 AM

Originally posted by Tarry
But If I may ask a little bit, it must have been quite a struggle to convince them from not to choose for SQLServer since they did a lot of investment in you(and others I guess) and in oracle DB (and development as well).

They had to install a lot of reporting software which was available only for SQL-Server, and there was no way programmers could do that with PL/SQL, Reports within a short period of time. Nothing to do with the database, except probably the savings from the OPS licences.

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And for heavens sake don't take it to any of the middle eastern countries on vacation...
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Why not?

**julian** · 10-14-2002, 04:50 AM

Originally posted by dknight
Congratulations on the job, Julian. That sounds really interesting.

Thanks! Yes, it is very interesting.

**jmodic** · 10-14-2002, 05:37 AM

Originally posted by julian
Nothing to do with the database, except probably the savings from the OPS licences.

That makes me wonder, why the heck did they use OPS in the first palce?

If they simply decided to switch to SQL Server simply because of some reporting software (????!!!!????), it looks like they have previously run OPS just because it sounded fancy ("Hey, we use OPS!"). Obviously there was no bussiness need to run OPS at all. Or am I missing something?

**hany** · 10-14-2002, 06:22 AM

Originally posted by Tarry

And for heavens sake don't take it to any of the middle eastern countries on vacation...

[Edited by Tarry on 10-14-2002 at 03:53 AM]

Tarry do you have a problem with middle eastern countries?

**Tarry** · 10-14-2002, 06:50 AM

Originally posted by julian

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Why not?
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A few guys have been punished/fined for the mobile+camera equipments.

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