MERRY CHRISTMAS from Pythian’s EBS Teams in Oracle style ;-)

Hello Friends!

Time flies and we are very close to the magical time of the year again!

Pythian’s friendly Oracle e-Business Suite DBAs would like to congratulate all of our friends, clients, Pythian colleagues, prospects, new team members whom we haven’t yet met (join us!), all database geeks, and blog readers for successfully completing 2012! Have a very peaceful Christmas and the happiest year ever in 2013! May all of your pagers be quiet, and your year-end maintenance be incident-free! ;)

Here comes our Christmas card to you :)

> set feedback off;
> select decode(sign(rownum-24),-1,
>        replace(replace(lpad(' ', 25 - rownum+trunc(rownum / 8) * 3, ' ') ||
>        rpad('^', rownum * 2 - 1 - trunc(rownum / 8) * 6, '^') ||
>        rpad(' ', 25 - rownum+trunc(rownum / 8) * 3, ' '),' ^^^',' ^o^'),'^^^ ','^o^ '),
>        lpad(' ', 23, ' ') ||
>        rpad('^', 3, '^') ||
>        rpad(' ', 23, ' ')
>        ) "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
>   from dual
> connect by rownum <= 26;

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        ^
                       ^o^
                      ^o^o^
                     ^o^^^o^
                    ^o^^^^^o^
                   ^o^^^^^^^o^
                  ^o^^^^^^^^^o^
                    ^o^^^^^o^
                   ^o^^^^^^^o^
                  ^o^^^^^^^^^o^
                 ^o^^^^^^^^^^^o^
                ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
               ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
              ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
             ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
               ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
              ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
             ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
            ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
           ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
          ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
         ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
        ^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^o^
                       ^^^
                       ^^^
                       ^^^

>

Best wishes from…

Team 5:

• Subhajit Chaudhuri
• Yury Velikanov (Twitter)
• Andrejs Prokopjevs (Twitter)
• Santhosh Kumar
• Ilya Shuldiner

Team 38:

• Sudeep Raj (Twitter)
• Maris Elsins (Twitter)
• John Piwowar (Twitter)
• Vasu Balla (Twitter)
• Raivis Saldabols (Twitter)