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RE: Fav. Urban Legend...take two

From: John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:14:18 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0042A277.20020314141418@fatcity.com>


Some more from me! (if they have already not been stated)

"The 'alter database backup controlfile' creates a backup of the controlfile that is used in 'recover database using backup controlfile'"

"Backup the controlfiles"

"using 'shutdown abort' to stop the database damages it beyond repair"

John Kanagaraj
Oracle Applications DBA
DBSoft Inc
(W): 408-970-7002

Grace - Getting something we don't deserve Mercy - NOT getting something we deserve

Click on 'http://www.needhim.org' for Grace and Mercy that is freely available!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Fav. Urban Legend...take two
>
>
> #3 One has to have 'delete any table' privilege to truncate
> someone else's
> tables.
>
> #2 Oracle does not write to the data file when the tablespace
> is in backup
> mode.
>
> And...
>
> #1 High Cache Hit Ratios (in the upper 90s) are always good.
>
>
> - Kirti
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Ok... one of my favorite Urban Legends is this one:
>
> The book is always right. In other words, if it's written down
> in a book we bought off of Amazon, it must be so.
>
> So, I'd like to ask, without anyone taking potshots at
> specific authors, what is the dumbest, silliest, or most
> technically incorrect thing you have ever seen in an
> Oracle book?
>
> RF
>
> Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
> Oracle DBA Technical Lead
> CSX Midtier Database Administration
>
> The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's
> conscience can
> take his freedom away from him.
>
>
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