Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ooh goodie, now I don't have to do my OCP rant, you've done it for me :) Joe, tell us how you REALLY feel, okay? From: "Joseph S. Testa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help Date:

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Joseph Testa
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RE: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help Anyone who's watched the list for a week will know me, no political correctness here :) and thats probably the only reason i am OCP, the company i worked for at the time, paid for the tests and gave me a bonus to complete them. :) joe From

RE: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Xing, Your OCP course may mention the script (depends which course you plan to take), but they will only mention it quickly. You can look it up in the Oracle administration manuals, or in the O'Reilly Oracle Built-In Packages book. Basically it generates statistics for the optimizer within a

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Well done Bill...nicely handled...gotta remember that one! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 08:00AM "Joseph S. Testa" wrote: Lee, i'm with you 200%, oh and for the original addressee(and others) if you can't figure out what the heck that simple pl/sql block is doing(or where to figure it

RE: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Dasko, Dan
I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I ask a question when I should probably look up the answer, but is it just me, or do about half the messages on the list seem like they could be answered in about 5 minutes by typing the question into google or RTFM. I mean seriously, I was running into

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Terry Ball
I think what Lee's objection was (I know when I read Xing's reply it got my goat), that Xing critized Lee for giving him a referance to look the answer up himself. I realize that it did not answer in full the actual question, but it asked Xing to do a little work on his own. If someone taking a