The Pythian Oracle ( Oracle of Delphi ) reportedly answered the question of " who is the wisest man of Greece?

The Greek philosopher Thales is reported to have been asked, “ What is the most difficult of all things ?” To which he is said to have answered “ To know yourself .” The Hermit is given time to obey the Delphic Oracle ’ s demand: know thyself.

They are typically the employees of a DBMS vendor ( e. g., Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Sybase ), or, in the case of Open source DBMSs ( e. g., MySQL ), volunteers or people supported by interested companies and organizations.

Headquartered at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Redwood City, California, United States and employing approximately 113, 644 people worldwide, it has enlarged its share of the software market through organic growth and through a number of high-profile acquisitions.

The Council was composed of The Family Dog, The Straight Theatre, The Diggers, The San Francisco Oracle, and approximately twenty-five other people, who sought to alleviate some of the problems anticipated from the influx of people expected in the summer.

The now defunct investment bank of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette had numerous talented people working there including people such as William Donaldson who served in the Nixon administration, as well as Ken Moelis, Bennett Goodman, Herald " Hal " Ritch, Joel Cohen, Safra A. Catz who became president of Oracle Corporation, Tom Dean, Larry Schloss, Michael Connelly, and others.

While at the University of Virginia, Brett Tjaden created the Oracle of Bacon, a computer program that uses information on some 800, 000 people from the Internet Movie Database ( IMDb ).

Omaha's most prominent businessman is Warren Buffett, nicknamed the " Oracle of Omaha ", who is regularly ranked one of the richest people in the world.

As explained by Allan Cohen, co-founder of the San Francisco Oracle, the purpose of the rally was twofold: to draw attention to the fact that LSD had just been made illegal — and to demonstrate that people who used LSD were not criminals, nor were they mentally ill.

Several well-known people live here, including Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, who spent nine years building an architecturally authentic, $ 200 + million Japanese feudal castle and man-made lake in Woodside ; Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore's Law ; John Thompson, CEO of Symantec ; Neil Young, rock musician and songwriter, who owns a ranch and recording studio there ; Michelle Pfeiffer, actress, and her husband David E. Kelley, producer ; Thomas Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems ; Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit, Inc .; John Doerr, venture capitalist ; Dr. Carl Djerassi, novelist and member of team that developed the birth control pill ; Kenneth Fisher, founder of Fisher Investments, Forbes columnist, author, and local historian ; Susan Dawson, philanthropist ; and Joan Baez, folk singer.

This headline refers to the addition to DB2 of several features that are familiar to users of Oracle Database, making it easier for people with Oracle Database skills to work with DB2.

In traditional accounts, he also goads the historian Cangjie into creating the first Chinese character writing system, the Oracle bone script, and his principal wife Leizu invents sericulture and teaches his people how to weave silk and dye clothes.

Commenting on Barbara Gordon's eventual evolution into Oracle, she states " any readers and individuals within the industry believe that Barbara Gordon became a ' better ' character after she was paralyzed, but few people comment on specifics of the event that allowed her to become that ' better ' character.

Since Socrates has interpreted the Delphic Oracle as singling him out to spur his fellow Athenians to a greater awareness of moral goodness and truth, he will not stop questioning and arguing should the people forbid him to do so, even if they were to withdraw the charges.

In January 2007 Oracle had more than 150 people working in various roles on the product, including ( in no particular order ): developers, development managers, QA engineers, build engineers, doc writers, product managers, customer evangelists, and usability engineers.

It is then revealed that the Oracle controls the people by means of an implanted device referred to as an " instrument of obedience ".

Related practices have been held by the Chinese people for over three thousand years ( such as written in Oracle bone scripts ), and alongside Buddhism, Taoism, and various other religions for the past two thousand years.

When Oedipus desired to know more about his parentage, he consulted the Delphic Oracle, only to be told that he must not go to his home or he would kill his father and marry his mother.

The Oracle reveals a secret society of exiles known only as the Shapers, who are the only ones able to bring the Fragments together in any significant way and that they must be protected from the impostor agents ' corruption.

The Oracle of Umuofia eventually pronounces that the boy must be killed.

John Wilcock, a founder of the Underground Press Syndicate, wrote about the Oracle: “ Its creators are using color the way Lautrec must once have experimented with lithography -- testing the resources of the medium to the utmost and producing what almost any experienced newspaperman would tell you was impossible ... it is a creative dynamo whose influence will undoubtedly change the look of American publishing .”

Should Oracle ever declare a new round of Java ME configuration versions that support the later class file formats and language features, such as those corresponding JRE 1. 5 or 1. 6 ( notably, generics ), it will entail extra work on the part of all platform vendors to update their JREs.

Peleiades ( Greek:, " doves ") were the sacred women of Zeus and the Mother Goddess, Dione, at the Oracle at Dodona.

As the Oracle of Delphi was sacred to the god Apollo, so did the mountain itself become associated with Apollo.

Sinbad heads to a mysterious island to seek the help of a wise Oracle, who tells them the location of the four sacred gems of Basra.

Traditional prayer by Izumo Kokuso, wedding ceremonies of believers, and the performances of sacred dance to ancient Japanese music involve the Oracle with 240 mats.

Then Aeschines, the Athenian deputy, contradicted the Amfissians, introducing their illegal actions in the sacred lands of the Oracle of Delphi before the Amphictyonic League, which called Philip II of Macedon to interfere.

The Architect meets the Oracle and speaks of the " dangerous game " that she played, and acknowledges that the truce will be honored, although he doubts how long it will last.

* Chapters 4-14: 9 ; Oracle judging Israel, Ephraim in particular, for not living up to the covenant.

Berkeley DB is also used as the common name for three distinct products ; Oracle Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition, and Berkeley DB XML.

Those who do not wish to abide by the terms of the Sleepycat Public License have the option of purchasing another proprietary license for redistribution from Oracle Corporation.

Oracle added support for SQL in 11g R2 release based on the popular SQLite API by including a version of SQLite in Berkeley DB.

The same goes for Larry Ellison, largely through his Oracle database software.

Cloud computing for call centres extends cloud computing to Software as a service, or hosted, on-demand call centres by providing application programming interfaces ( APIs ) on the call centre cloud computing platform that allow call centre functionality to be integrated with cloud-based Customer relationship management, such as Salesforce. com or Oracle CRM and leads management and other applications.

* The New York Times, March 19, 2002: " Fumes and Visions Were Not a Myth for Oracle at Delphi "

Upon the death of the Dalai Lama and consultation with the Nechung Oracle, a search for the Lama's reincarnation, or yangsi ( yang srid ), is conducted.

Some general-purpose DBMSs, like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2, have been undergoing upgrades for thirty years or more.

However this idea is still pursued for certain applications by some companies like Netezza and Oracle ( Exadata ).

When Cleisthenes divided the ancient Athenians into new demes for voting, he consulted the Oracle of Delphi about what heroes he should name each division after.

As penalty for a murder, imposed by Xenoclea, the Delphic Oracle, Heracles was to serve as her slave for a year.

On March 22, 2011, Oracle announced discontinuation of development on Itanium, although its technical support for its existing products would continue.

This did not hold Oracle, however, from filing a lawsuit against Google shortly after that for using Java inside the Android SDK ( see Google section below ).

Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.

Besides the traditional scientific applications, KSR with Oracle Corporation, addressed the massively parallel database market for commercial applications.

The KSR-1 and-2 supported Micro Focus COBOL and C / C ++ programming languages, and the Oracle PRDBMS and the MATISSE OODBMS from ADB, Inc. Their own product, the KSR Query Decomposer, complemented the functions of the Oracle product for SQL uses.

The official set of MySQL front-end tools, MySQL Workbench is actively developed by Oracle, and is freely available for use.

Other available proprietary MySQL front ends include dbForge Studio for MySQL, DBStudio, Epictetus, Oracle SQL Developer, SchemaBank, SQLPro SQL Client, Toad Data Modeler.

After the acquisition, an Oracle press release mentioned that the contracts that make the company's software available to MySQL AB would be due for renewal ( and presumably renegotiation ) some time in 2006.

In February 2006, Oracle Corporation acquired Sleepycat Software, makers of the Berkeley DB, a database engine providing the basis for another MySQL storage engine.

On 14 December 2009, Oracle pledged to continue to enhance MySQL as it had done for the previous four years.

Oracle machines are useful for investigating the relationship between complexity classes P and NP, by considering the relationship between P < sup > A </ sup > and NP < sup > A </ sup > for an oracle A.