Re: Dumb DBA mistakes

>How about - don't publish a list of ways Informix DBAs can shoot >themselves in the foot on a public newslist. 10 years ago I would have >been laughing all the way to the next competitive presentation. I guess this is a good time to bring up my experience at Oracle training when, I rode in an elevator with 4 Oracle sales reps. I was forced to learn Oracle (oh the horror) by a previous employer. During the training at Oracle headquarters in the area, I got in an elevator with 4 Oracle sales reps (true story not a set up for a joke). The salesman were having a lively dicussion about which Oracle products they hated demoing the most because they were most likely to blow up while they were demoing. It gave me a lot of confidence in the Oracle product line. I can't remember which products were the worst but each sales rep had several horror stories and detailed tips on which things not to try because they didn't work right. They each even had their "favorite" worst Oracle product. There just wasn't one that was the consensus worst to demo.