Re: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's razor

I've also seen variations that used "incompetence" or the more benign "ignorance" instead of "stupidity".

I agree. Effective conspiracy would require efficient planning and execution. Most of what is sometimes blamed on conspiracy is often the result of natural entropy - aided by the catalytic agents stupidity, ignorance, greed, et cetera.

Don Granaman
[OraSaurus]

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:58 AM

> I'd think the reverse. Since we know there are so many different things
> that could cause any given problem we're probably less likely to blame
> everything on one overarching cause.
>
> Plus we know how often those problems are caused by stupidity rather than
> malicious intent.
>
> Jay Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I wonder, do DBA's tend to lean more toward being conspiracy
> theorists then???
>
> RF

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