{"id":812,"date":"2006-04-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2006-04-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:00:00","slug":"nearly-speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/nearly-speechless\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Speechless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This email arrived a couple of weeks ago and had the rare effect of rendering me temporarily speechless. I haven&#8217;t edited a word, apart from removing the name of the sender to protect the all too guilty.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Sir,<\/p>\n<p>I want to persue career in Oracle-Pl\/sql.<br \/>But I do not have any recognised degree in computer science.<br \/>But still by work experience I am very well aware of Oracle-Pl\/Sql.<\/p>\n<p>As I have no study material from Interview point of view, I am facing  problems.<br \/>On coming sunday I am having interview as &#8220;Oracle-Pl\/sql developer on<br \/>unix platform&#8221; in an IT company &amp; I don&#8217;t want to let this oppotunity.<\/p>\n<p>If you could mail some important question-answers for above position,  that will be a gr8 gr8 help to me.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks &amp; Regards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I replied :-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That would kind of defeat the point of an interview, wouldn&#8217;t it? So I&#8217;m  afraid the answer is no.  <\/p>\n<p>Regards,  <\/p>\n<p>Doug <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email arrived a couple of weeks ago and had the rare effect of rendering me temporarily speechless. I haven&#8217;t edited a word, apart from removing the name of the sender to protect the all too guilty. Dear Sir, I want to persue career in Oracle-Pl\/sql.But I do not have any recognised degree in computer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/nearly-speechless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nearly Speechless<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":867,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/05\/faq-for-oracle-plsql-gateway-security-issue-released-by-david-litchfield\/","url_meta":{"origin":812,"position":0},"title":"FAQ For Oracle PL\/SQL Gateway Security Issue Released by David Litchfield","date":"February 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I noticed on Oracle-L that Oracle have a response to the David Litchfield Oracle PL\/SQL Gateway Security Issue workaround.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1056,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/19\/ausougoaug-2006-conference-announcement\/","url_meta":{"origin":812,"position":1},"title":"AUSOUG\/OAUG 2006 Conference Announcement","date":"August 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The AUSOUG and OAUG committees are very excited to announce the Australian 2006 conference series is less than three months away. 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