Surviving Oracle

Approximately. 9 years ago I was in Helsinki attending a course on my Nokia NMS1000 Commissioning. It was tough for me the fact that I was a 2 months’ fresh graduate with minimum knowledge of UNIX (hey I know ls command!) , Oracle and the application itself.
At one stage of the installation (not easy everything was command line and source of installation was from a DAT tape!) , me and another British colleague were asked to clear some space in the filesystem and the suggestion from the trainer was to delete some “unwanted” logfiles. So what I did was running the “find / – name bla bla” command and walla! we found some log files.
I actually deleted all the redo logs from Oracle (wasn’t that genius??!) and then proudly showed it to the trainer. Her face turned red, she’s a blonde Scandinavian so it was very obvious – and that very moment I just knew that I was really screwed up . It took her perhaps half and hour to resolve the issue, made me felt very idiot that day but the cool part was somehow, after that I got more attention from her than anyone else in the class.
And now, years later I am here in Oracle Training Centre attending a course in Oracle (Fundamental DBA I & II for straight 2 weeks. What a vacation! ) . Most of the time, I will go .. Ohhh thats why in my work I have to do that bla bla command or My God! That was so easy I should have run this and that when I have this and that problem.

Hampeh kan? Come on man.. I am supposed to be a system+network engineer not a DBA!
But guess what, I already asked my superior to get me the exam voucher after the course so I can sit for the exam and become Oracle Certified Professional!