{"id":155,"date":"2014-02-19T20:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=155"},"modified":"2023-12-07T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T02:49:38","slug":"oracle-voodoo-doll-%e2%80%93-good-or-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Oracle voodoo doll \u2013 good or bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A client and his wife bought me this voodoo doll while they were on vacation (see picture). <\/p>\n

It is a \u201cWatchover Voodoo Doll\u201d, and the labeling says \u201cOracle \u2013 Gives you insight into your future and points you in the right direction.\u201d <\/p>\n

I thought voodoo dolls were for sticking pins into and putting curses on enemies. Let\u2019s look on the bright side and assume for the sake of argument that the doll is well-intentioned. <\/p>\n

So, assuming the garnered insight is about Oracle databases, how does the doll point us \u201cin the right direction?\u201d Can it access my clients\u2019 databases? Does the insight get delivered to me, the database consultant, or directly to my clients? How is the insight delivered \u2013 email, Twitter, telephone call? <\/p>\n

And, when it opines, \u201cIf you don\u2019t change to a more acceptable CURSOR_SHARING setting, you\u2019re going to run that database right into the ground,\u201d would anyone believe a voodoo doll anyway? Does it get angry if we don\u2019t heed its advice? What does a voodoo doll do when it gets angry?<\/p>\n

Hmmm \u2026 just in case, I think I\u2019ll keep the sewing pins a safe distance away!<\/p>\n

Mary Elizabeth McNeely<\/p>\n

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A client and his wife bought me this voodoo doll while they were on vacation (see picture). <\/p>\n

It is a \u201cWatchover Voodoo Doll\u201d, and the labeling says \u201cOracle \u2013 Gives you insight into your future and points you in the right direction.\u201d <\/p>\n

I thought voodoo dolls were for sticking pins into and putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}