Re: max open cursors case

Jayadas,

Welcome to the list.

Before you start denigrating the many fine folks on this list, you might hang around awhile and get to know them.

If you had, you would realize that this is not a DBA only list, and that there many excellent developers on this list.

I've worked with some excellent developers, and believe me, it is truly a joy. I've also worked with some real morons, those whose only incentive for getting into IT was their discovery of the IT manpower shortage and that it payed better than their then current employment as a barista.

Those morons are derisively referred to as duhvelopers, a condescending pejorative for which I will offer no apology.

What makes an excellent developer? Some or all of the following qualities are highly indicative of an excellent developer, at least from a DBA perspective. Their are many other things they need to know as well, but I'll limit to the DBA/Developer interface.

Many of these qualities apply to excellent DBA's as well.

• a willingness to learn
• acknowledging that you can learn from others
• fair amount of knowledge of RDBMS's ( or willing to learn )
• knows what normalization is and the purpose behind it
• does not stubbornly try to reinvent the database in his or her code
• knowledge of data modeling
• is willing to let the DBA do his or her job
• does not treat the database as a black box
• does not instantly blame the database for performance problems ( this can save them great embarrassment later )
• understands why foreign key constraints are a good thing.

There's more, but this covers the highlights, at least IMO.

Jared

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 12:08, Chelur, Jayadas {PBSG} wrote:
> it is ridiculous that the this thread is doing more of
> developer bashing than anything else ... but of
> course, lesser mortals like developers just exist
> to please the almighty DBAs, who always are the
> supreme pinnacle of knowledge and enlightenment ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:14 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Dick,
>
> Also let me re-iterate ... we can't convince 'them' that their code is
> less-than-optimal. It is the stupid database that ...
>
> Raj
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