Who is Scott Tiger?
I guess more accurately, who is Scott, since it’s really scott/tiger.
If you’re not familiar, scott used to be one of the seeded users that came with a fresh Oracle DB install. His password was tiger. Here’s the story.
Bruce Scott was one of the first employees at Oracle, and his daughter had a cat named Tiger. Not a very strong set of credentials, but we’re talking about 30 years ago.
I haven’t done an Oracle install in many years. I’m in Apps, remember? However, from what I read around the interwebs, it looks like the scott schema was removed mid-decade. Not a bad run for a demo user though.
Wondering what the point is here? Or maybe you’re accustomed to ramblings by now.
Anyway, while perusing OraNA today, I found this nugget from the PeopleSoft Tipster.
Can anyone confirm whether these are real people or just virtual PeopleSoft characters?
Ah, those People people, they are creative and whimsical.
While we have sober conference room numbering schemes at corporate HQ, their conference rooms are themed, e.g. the James Bond movie theme on Paul’s floor.
I wonder which is truly easier to remember, the logical naming scheme based on location or the themed naming scheme? I guess it depends on whether you get the thematic reference or not, e.g. if you don’t know any James Bond movies, you’re a bit befuddled when someone says the morning meeting will be in Thunderball.
I had to laugh because EBS also has several default users that are old friends, like Pat Stock. Not that it mattered, but I always wondered if Pat were a man or a woman. That was probably the point, all those years ago, i.e. to pick a gender ambiguous name. I know there are others in EBS, whose names escape me right now. It’s been several years since I mucked around in a demo environment of EBS too.
To the point. Creating demo data is way harder than you’d imagine. You’ll know this if you’ve ever done so.
That was probably the toughest part of writing system test plans and system testing because you already know how to test the product and how to (try to) break it. The annoying mundane work is arguably the creative stuff, i.e. creating demo data out of thin air.
I have a friend who’s been in network operations forever, and they always argued over server naming. Typically, it was one geeky cult vs. another, e.g. Star Wars planets vs. Star Trek villains.
Anyway, I usually run out of ideas after a couple tries. Then it’s back to vanilla variations on Test and Foo.
It would be fun to start a list of famous dummy data. So, if you know of any, Oracle or otherwise, put it in comments.