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Don Burleson Blog

Oracle Professionals plan for the Future. . . Winners announced!

Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting
Don Burleson

As you recall, we had a fun contest to come-up with some funny epitaphs for computer professionals and we received hundreds of entries:

http://www.dba-oracle.com/oracle_tips_headstone_epitaph.htm

We had a tremendous response and a list of really great epitaph ideas. Sadly some of the best are inappropriate for mixed company, but thanks for sending them! You gave confirmed what I already knew, that Oracle professionals are among the most creative folks anywhere!

Congratulations to each of these lucky winners who will receive a free 10g reference poster and a free copy of the bestselling Rampant book Oracle Database 10g New Features. The top-3 winners include these creative entries:

GRAND Prize Winner:

"OCP DBA DOA DU2 10g" - Clive Allwork

Second Place:

"maxextents unlimited? Sadly Not." - Tom Schofield

Third Place:

?Version no longer Supported. - Upgrade path not possible.? ? Dipak Thakrar

Honorable Mention:

The following entries receive a free Oracle10g Reference poster:

He checked in, as an Internet DBA, but he didn't check out ? George Hat

I overtuned my life. The time passed too fast. - Roberto Veiga

I was Packaged and Bundled! - Mary Ann Casey

I did data my way! ? Rick Powell

"ORA-00051" - TIMEOUT_ON_RESOURCE ? Ashwin Kumar

"Take backup of db, not me" - Jc.KC Padmesh

SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE - Torsten Pattberg

SHUTDOWN ABORT - 1944 - 2004 - Vincent Wong
"Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" ? David McWhinnie

"End-of-file on communication channel" - Gerard Vaz

? 'ORA-03113: end-of-life on communication channel' - Namrata Berry

"No Listener found - Shutdown in progress" - Waseem Shahzad

Again, many thanks to all of you who took the time to submit an entry and I look forward to your participation in future contests.

Are You Grid Enabled?

Oracle 10g Grid technology is has changed Oracle forever and all Oracle professionals must understand this core Oracle technology.

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Mike Ault, one of the world's most widely-read Oracle experts, has finally consented to release his complete collection of more than 450 Oracle scripts.

Mike has priced his collection of 465 scripts at $39.95, less than a dime per script. You can download them immediately at this link:

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