A decade ago...

It was ten years ago that asktom was "born" (and five years and a month ago this blog was)...

The first question asked was about Oracle 7.3 on a Sun 5.5.1 machine - in early 2000 (right after we got by that year 2000 thing). Funny, the last time it was updated was.... just a little more than 3 months ago - it is still alive...

Man oh man - have things changed since. I stand at about 12,000 published Q&A's (about 40,000 in total - not all get published for various reasons...) I have 10 new ones in the queue (will get to them soon - have lots of travel planned for today and the week in fact)...

I've learned a lot in the last ten years - things have changed considerably.

Remember what a "big" server looked like in 2000? Remember what they cost? Think about how now you can buy stuff off of the shelf on your credit card that blows them away.

In 1997 - we were doing terabyte test to scales - a terabyte was such a big deal then that we would put out a press release. Now we have a database machine with 5tb of flash cache just to buffer part of the database.... A terabyte is nothing - my son would be disappointed in any laptop with less than that for storage...

It is only because things keep changing so fast, so much - that this stuff stays interesting. Imagine if it were still like 1993 (when I joined Oracle) 17 years later. It would be pretty boring...

Anyway, thanks for all of the great questions - looking forward to more...