Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration: From Novice to Professional

CHAPTER 12Backups

As to our Conduct in the Affair of Extinguishing Fires, tho' we do not want Hands or Good-Will, yet we seem to want Order and Method, and therefore I believe I cannot do better than to offer for our Imitation, the Example of a City in a Neighbouring Province. There is, as I am well inform'd, a Club or Society of active Men belonging to each Fire Engine; whose Business is to attend all Fires with it whenever they happen; and to work it once a Quarter, and see it kept in order.

—Benjamin Franklin, in an anonymous letter to thePennsylvania Gazette (of which he was the editor), followinga disastrous fire in Philadelphia in the 18th century

American national hero Benjamin Franklin often wrote anonymous letters to the Pennsylvania ...