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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Pre-Approved database changes
Dear List,
Those of you with stringent change control standards, or are currently
going
through Sarbanes Oxley, may be familiar with pre-approved changes.
Essentially, all changes will be logged to the change control repository.
Yes, all.
There will be a list of pre-approved changes. These are changes that may be performed without review by the change control board.
These are things that are naturally done throughout the course of the day
as part
of normal DBA duties. These changes are of a nature that the outcome is
always
predictable, and does not result in accidental downtime or outages, or
have other
profoundly negative results.
Keep in mind that there is an assumed level of competence and some discretion involved on the part of the DBA. You could probably perform just about any database operation and cause problems if you don't know what you are doing or act as if you are the only user on the system.
Examples:
adding datafiles to a tablespace
changing storage parameters on an index or table
modifying database statistics through collection or deletion
create exports
create backups
online index rebuilds ( in the rare case that it is useful )
Vertex Tax Table loads( yes, I'm stuck with those )
These changes are assumed to occur on active database systems, and are not part of some other normally scheduled procedure, such as a data load.
I would like to add to this list, and will welcome all suggestions and/or corrections.
If it is substantial, I will post it somewhere that all can access it.
Thanks,
Jared
PS. It's due tomorrow. ;)
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