Oracle, the The all-knowing, all-wise Internet Oracle rec.humor.oracle, or one of the foreign
language derivatives of same. Newbies frequently confuse the Oracle with
Oracle, a database vendor. As a result, the unmoderated rec.humor.oracle.d is frequently cross-posted
to by the clueless, looking for advice on SQL. As more than one person has
said in similar situations, “Don't people bother to look at the
newsgroup description line anymore?” (To which the standard response
is, “Did people ever read it in the first place?”)