Oracle Application Express ?.. Who comes up with these names ?

Oracle recently announced that it had renamed the HTMLDB tool as Oracle Application Express. Link Here ...

Now thats confusing as hell, considering that this product has nothing to do with the Express Products or Application Server. Lets hope that this product will live longer than WebDB which got integrated into App Server in the later stages. Considering that oracle moved metalink to this, I have high hopes for the longevity of Application Express aka HTMLDB

Routine Oracle DBA ? : A rant in support of TK

I stumbled upon Tom Kyte's Rant about the people who are aiming for instant knowledge. My experience has been that "many" new entrants into the field start categorizing work as "Routine Oracle DBA" from the second day they are on the job.

Routine Work as defined by the newbies is Anything or Everything that they may have executed even if they didnt know what exactly they were doing. The trend seems to be on identifying an activity, learning the basics on the process and execution and then moving on to a newer job with additional skills added to the resume.

My org policies now dictate that every newbie is going "manual" for 3 months instead of automated Cloning and Replication Procedures. This helped some, but I dont think we as Managers or Tech Leaders can force a change in how they acuqire their knowledge.

Oh Well.. We can only take the horse to the water.. or is that a Routine Task ?

My Leap into Blogging..

Hi,

Taking a big leap from Forums to Blogs..

I am Oracle King, a 14 year DBA Veteran in the South East, that kicks himself everyday for giving up technical line and taking a leap to become a "weepy" VP of database Operations.

Here is my foray back into sharing my perspectives on Life in the techno managerial operations world. Who am I kidding .. its just another outlet for me to vent ;-)..

DBA King