Re: Need an Oracle Check List

Dennis:

Thanks very much for the suggestions. They will help me a lot. I have been working on the position for about two months now. It has everything I want - Oracle DBA, manufacturing, large company, and only 14 miles from my home.

I will be working for a small IT company but be on-site at their client. I should be signing my contract later this week and go to the client site next Monday to start learning from the departing DBA who is going on to another project. The position will be contract-for-hire.

I'll be able to say who it is after I sign my contract.

Ken
Hugo, MN

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:49 AM

> Ken - Be sure to ask for the system password ;-)
> Congratulations on the position. If I'm recalling correctly from your
> previous posts, this is VERY welcome. The best suggestion is one I used
> myself. At some point you'll sit down and go over the systems. That will
> take about 30-minutes to 1 hour. You probably won't understand but a small
> portion of the statements because it will all be new to you. Take a small
> cassette recorder and record (with permission) the discussions of the
> systems you will be taking over. Then that night play the tape back and
type
> up the conversation word-for-word. Then go over the transcript and make a
> list of questions for the departing DBA. Then the next day ask about any
> points that weren't clear when you reviewed the tape. In previous
positions,
> everything would seem clear at the time but the next day I would be pretty
> hazy on the details. I used a tape recorder on my last job changeover and
> didn't miss a thing.
>
> Some other questions
> 1. Which people are most critical to my success in this position?
> 2. What issues are the most important?
> 3. What issues regularly arise which impact the quality of the systems?
> 4. What areas do I need to learn more?
>
>
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 40%OCP
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 9:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> It appears that I will be taking over an Oracle production DBA position in
> about a week from another DBA. I would like suggestions as to
specifically
> I should be looking for from this person. Something like a check list.
> Items that I need to specifically look at.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Janusz, CPIM
>
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