I’ve been a bit busy over the last few days and haven’t had much time to do any new postings or catch up with comments; but I’ve just got a few moments to let you know about a client I visited a few weeks ago who didn’t give me the usual “nothing’s changed” story.
“We’ve only changed two things,” he said, “the hardware and the software.”***
Mind you, I wasn’t sure whether the change in the network infrastructure should have counted as a third thing.
*** I think he’d read the earlier blog item.
:D :D
ROFL stuff :D
Comment by Amardeep Sidhu — March 20, 2010 @ 6:32 am UTC Mar 20,2010 |
ROTFL :D
Comment by Aman.... — March 20, 2010 @ 6:51 am UTC Mar 20,2010 |
LOL! This reminded me of a TV repair joke.
Repair guy emerges from the back of the tv with half of its guts on the floor and claims:
“I’ve narrowed down the problem: it’s either a fuse or something else!”
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Comment by Noons — March 20, 2010 @ 1:03 pm UTC Mar 20,2010 |
LOL!
Noons, have you forgotten? Something else always blows to protect the fuse. Well known corollary to Murphy’s law. Though perhaps being a TV repairman and expecting that negates it.
I’m sure Jonathan always expects the Customer Inquisition.
Comment by joel garry — March 22, 2010 @ 12:34 am UTC Mar 22,2010 |
Nice one.
The last time I heard “Nothing changed”, it was followed later by the qualification “… well we did bump the default degree of parallelism from 8 to 120. A Sun consultant told us to.” Less of a bump, more of an explosion.
Comment by David Aldridge — March 22, 2010 @ 7:17 am UTC Mar 22,2010 |
It has always been funny! May be I will try to rephrase the thing “what were not changed..” :-). What would be a better way to keep track of db changes – Change Manager? Is there anything that comes default with Enterprise Edition? Thanks.
Comment by Shawon — March 23, 2010 @ 5:39 am UTC Mar 23,2010 |
Shawon,
Unless anyone else has any ideas, I think this is one you might pursue through the OTN Forum:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/main.jspa?categoryID=84
Comment by Jonathan Lewis — March 23, 2010 @ 9:28 pm UTC Mar 23,2010 |