RE: Seeking opinions

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Baumgartel [SMTP:treegarden_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Seeking opinions
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> I'm currently working at a client where the OFA standard has been (as
> they put it) "taken to the next level". I disagree with their
> approach, and I'd be interested to see what list members think.
>
> The client believes that any DBA (there are about 16 on staff) should
> be able to locate data files in any database without querying the data.
> To this end, mount points are named both /unnn (e.g., /u001) and /annn
> (e.g., /a001). "System" datafiles (system, temp, rollback tablespaces)
> go only on the /unnn mount points, and in particular, datafiles for
> certain tablespaces must go on certain mount points--for instance
> rollback tablespace files always go on /u004.
>
> "User" datafiles are allowed on /a001 and /a002, tables and indexes,
> respectively.
>
> To my mind, this standard changes the Optimal Flexible Architecture to
> the Sub-optimal Inflexible Architecture, and all just to avoid a data
> dictionary query. What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> =====
> Paul Baumgartel, Adept Computer Associates, Inc.
> paul.baumgartel_at_aya.yale.edu
>
>
>
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