What should sys admins know about Oracle?

From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:45:28 -0400
Message-Id: <10527.108968@fatcity.com>

Chris brings up something that I was just thinking about the other day. There are some key things about Oracle that system administrators may not understand by default. What are they? What do you want your system administrators to know about Oracle?=20

=46rom past experience, two things come to mind:

1. Oracle needs lots of physically separate disks. Please don't replace 9 4-gig drives with one 36 gig drive<g>.=20
2. Mount points used for Oracle should correspond to physically separate drives, or at least I should know when they don't. I once had a sys admin give me 3 mount points to use for control files, and it turned out that they all pointed to the same drive. I had a difficult time explaining to him why that was a bad thing.

So what else? What else do system administrators "need" to know about Oracle?

Jonathan

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:58:37 -0800, Chris Royce wrote:

>I DO agree with you about 'clueless sys admins' BUT, at all of my sites
>---- I have a 'pow-wow' with the sys admin and explain what the ORACLE
>systems archetecture is all about and the importance of just a few
Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 10:45:28 CDT