“New” and “different” are often intimidating and scary. We’re forced to learn or invent new approaches to familiar or comfortable tasks and perhaps even alter our perceptions and understanding. Tried and true is stable, even secure.
Yet everything we do, especially in IT, was once new and different. I started on Oracle 7, long before the days of RMAN, Real Application Clusters, or Data Guard. The cloud? Not a thing. Exadata was still a dream. Today, I take them for granted as part of my day-to-day work with Oracle, but I had ...
