RE: How to put egg on your face

Been there, done that - Once!

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Gennick [SMTP:jonathan_at_gennick.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 6:55 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: How to put egg on your face
>
> Here's a new recipe I discovered today for putting egg on my
> face:
>
> 1. Run low on disk on the server
>
> 2. Hurriedly delete "unused" database files in order to free
> up space because you are behind on a deadline.
>
> (you can see where this is going, right<grin>).
>
> 3. Call up Oracle Support about a completely different
> problem.
>
> 4. While on the phone with the support analyst, "bounce"
> database instance to change a parameter setting.
>
> 5. Discover that instance won't start because files are
> missing.
>
> 6. Mutter various words that should be deprecated from the
> English language<grin>.
>
> 7. Defer discussion of original problem until you can
> rebuild the database.
>
> 8. Imagine support analyst laughing after she hangs up the
> phone.
>
> It's very important to do steps 4-7 while on the phone with
> a knowledgeable Oracle professional, so that you can
> maximize the exposure of your utterly stupid act of deleting
> your database files while your database is running.
>
> I should know better. It was a test database, and because of
> that I got a bit too cavalier with it. I paid by spending a
> couple of hours recreating the database from scratch. On the
> positive side, the support call involved some database links
> that I couldn't seem to drop. Trashing the entire database
> took care of that problem quite nicely<grin>.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jonathan
> mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com
Received on Wed Nov 15 2000 - 08:50:20 CST