How did you learn so much stuff about Oracle?

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在解决性能上我之前学习编译器的基础帮助了我许多。

My first “career job” was as a software engineer, which I started before the MBA. I designed languages and wrote compilers to implement those languages. Yes, people actually pay good money for that, and it’s possibly still the most fun I’ve ever had at work. I wrote software in C, lex, and yacc, and I taught my colleagues how to do it, too. In particular, I spent a lot of time teaching my colleagues how to make their C code faster and more portable (so it would run on more computers than just one on which you wrote it).

A lot of the problems were performance; problems of the software running “too slowly.” I found those problems particularly interesting. For those, I had some experience and tools at my disposal. I knew a good bit about operating systems and compilers and profilers and linkers and debuggers and all that, and so learning about Oracle indexes and rollback segments (two good examples, continual sources of customer frustration) wasn’t that scary of a step for me.

在我去解决实际问题的时候，我得到过许多人的帮助所以才能支撑下来。帮助别人，才能得到财富。我没有办法回报之前帮助我的人，但是我会尝试将这份回报通过帮助别人给传递出去。

So, how did I learn so much stuff about Oracle? It started by immersing myself into a universe where every working day I had to solve somebody’s real Oracle problems. Uncomfortable, but effective . I survived because I was persistent and because I had a great company behind me, filled with spectacularly intelligent people who loved helping each other. Could I have done that on my own, today, with the advent of the Internet and lots and lots of great and reliable books out there to draw upon? I doubt it. I sincerely do. But maybe if I were young again…

I tell my children, there’s only one place where money comes from: other people. Money comes only from other people. So many things in life are that way.

I’m a natural introvert. I naturally withdraw from group interactions whenever I don’t feel like I’m helping other people. Thankfully, my work and my family draw me out into the world. If you put me into a situation where I need to solve a technical problem that I can’t solve by myself, then I’ll seek help from the wonderful friends I’ve made.

I can never pay it back, but I can try to pay it forward.

所以我的建议是：

  1. 打好技术基础
  2. 建立人际网络
  3. 解决实际问题

So, to my new LinkedIn friend, here’s my advice. Here’s what worked for me: