Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
IN THE FIELD ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 123 Anderson The great part about IOUG is that youll get your question answered but you might also start a relationship that lasts a lifetime Start Almost 10 years ago I met a few guys during a technical discussion at an IOUG conference Afterwards we went out for a few drinks and ended up talking the night away The whole rest of that year as technical things popped up we emailed each other Then the next year at the IOUG conference we got together again Over the years if somebody was standing alone at a conference wed go up and talk to them and all of a sudden we have another person in the group Now weve got 25 or 30 people in this group Weve got a slack channel and if you want to talk about whats going on in your family or if you have a CECL Current Expected Credit Loss 2 initiative you post it there A while ago my daughter won a soccer game and I posted it and everybody was asking about the game The next day somebody ran into an Oracle Data Guard issue and within a minute or two somebody posted a suggestion for what to do Then everybody jumped in and they were all helping out Did you do this check this and check that Bam That database was back up and running Anderson As things move to the cloud your group will have a lot to talk about Outgoing IOUG President Maria Anderson looks at IOUG as a source of opportunity peer support and answers
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