One of my former colleagues Nadeera forwarded this mail to me, I wonder how authentic
it is?>
You must have always wondered why the username / password in SQL is Scott/Tiger....>
Who is this Scott? Here is the answer to your query....>
So, who is Scott?>
Bruce Scott was one of the first employees at Oracle (then Software Development
Laboratories). He co-founded Gupta Technology (now known as Centura Software) in 1984
with Umang Gupta, and later became CEO and founder of PointBase, Inc.>
Bruce was co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3.>
The SCOTT schema (EMP and DEPT tables), with password TIGER, was created by
him. Tiger was the name of his cat.>