{"id":1260,"date":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T12:00:00","slug":"first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been all change this week as I’ve donned collar and tie and\u00a0walked\u00a0to work in\u00a0the offices of one of the bigger finance companies in Scotland. A few interesting little experiences :-<\/p>\n

Using a 3270<\/a> terminal emulator for the first time in ages to login to a mainframe and use TSO<\/a>! I hasten to add that it’s just for admin tasks and not technical database-related work, but it’s a strange, vaguely familiar experience, all the same.<\/p>\n

Clocking in and out of the office, so it’s fair to say that there’s always some kind of clock running at work! What I like about this clock is that it lets me smoke\u00a0on my own time without working less hours than my colleagues but it’s unobtrusive otherwise.<\/p>\n

Having written the Dev DBA article recently, my current client uses the model where the Dev DBAs are probably the most senior DBAs and have a lot of involvement in how applications are designed and implemented, which is cool. I don’t work in that team but I know some of the guys through the user group community and they have some smart people on that team. I just do the grunt work of deploying the applications to production, but I’m sure there’ll be some sensible dialogue along the way.<\/p>\n

I’m working on some new 10g implementations so I can hopefully have a positive influence on the 10g standard deployment model.<\/p>\n

Apex<\/a> is very popular there and\u00a0it’s a big company, remember, so I would say it augers well for the future success of Apex in the Oracle world.<\/p>\n

Other than that, I don’t plan on saying any more about my work other than the purely technical. I think I’m going to enjoy working there, though 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been all change this week as I’ve donned collar and tie and\u00a0walked\u00a0to work in\u00a0the offices of one of the bigger finance companies in Scotland. A few interesting little experiences :- Using a 3270 terminal emulator for the first time in ages to login to a mainframe and use TSO! 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