RE: Management Reports

Thomas said:
"How's the database running?" is as silly a question as you asking your child "How you feeling today?". Both answers are a flat "fine". My two year old would respond with "don't know !!", could be a manager in the making or maybe a NT admin :-)

But I had also wondered what the already in trouble was, get a clear dialogue going as to what is his pain so you can resolve it. And if you don't think you can resolve it polish the resume because whatever you do you may well find yourself bundled out of there sooner or later anyway.

Cheers

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Mike,

My suggestion was silly, I agree.  But it forces management to come up 
with
a better question.

"How's the database running?" is as silly a question as you asking your
child "How you feeling today?". Both answers are a flat "fine".

I would suggest you have a dialogue to ask what kind of information are 
they
looking for?

You already received a few decent ideas - 
# of log switches a day - a relative indicator of update usage;
# hours per day/week/month database is available
suck data from STATSPACK and put it into Excel showing disk/tablespace i/o
etc.

You mentioned that you were "already in trouble" - not sure what you meant
by this, but start a discussion with your boss to figure out what he is
looking for.  Find a way to "get out of trouble"  :)

hope this helps

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


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LOL!  But I'm already in the doghouse, so I don't think
they'd see it as funny!

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hi!

select 1998, 'a lot to do' from dual;
select 1999, 'even more to do' from dual;
select 2000, 'pooooh ....' from dual;
select 2001, 'at full speed' from dual;
select 2002, 'increase the DBAs salary from dual';


my boss was delighted about it


daniel



"Vergara, Michael (TEM)" wrote:


> 

> Good Morning Everyone!

> 

> My management wants a chart that shows the performance of the

> database.  If this was your boss, what would you show them?

> 

> Thanks,

> Mike

> 

> P.S.  This is a repeat e-mail.  I never saw my other one hit the

> list.

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