I believe he has already published "Dummies for Oracle8i".
At 2/27/02, you wrote: >Buy him the 'Oracle8i For Dummies' as your departing gift, and suggest that >he does this himself... >Heck, if he can "design" it, let him have the privilege of "building" it as >well :) > >Good Luck... > >- Kirti > >-----Original Message----- >Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:48 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > >I've lost patience, my temper, and I'm about to quit a job because the >IT >manager has decreed that we will have "his" data warehouse running >within >24 hours, and we will use his design. > >1 - We are NOT to use any kind of views, not even materailzed views. 2 - >we are not to do any computations, summaries or rollups 3 - we are to >have everything in one table 4 - "the" table name and column names will >be meaningful to any clerk 5 - we are not to "start" or "snowflake" >designs. "That's just a bunch of >high power talk." >6 - all users will be trained to use MS Access to get at "their" >data. (These are users that were just converted off from "green screen" > >teminals within the last 45-days, to Windows 98 with 64k RAM.) 7 - We >are not to just copy the legacy transactions. 8 - We are to load into >"an" Oracle table, all legacy transction data >because "we don't want to limit how or what a user will look at" 9 - It >is not necessary to talk with the users to see what data they want >to look at, or the atomic level. "They are smart enough to fighure this > >out on their own. We just need to provide them the data." >10 - There shall be no long term maintenance required by "the" dw. > > >Any ideas on how to deal with this situation? > >For tomorrow, I've done a CTAS from a materialized view that we created >to >support one departments known requirements. > > >Don > >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: Don > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the >message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of >mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP >command for other information (like subscribing). >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: Seefelt, Beth > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: Deshpande, Kirti > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
