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If you enjoy Oracle tales that make you wince, for those haven't read it already, get the book "Oracle Insights - Tales from the Oak Table". The story of the "Vision" database and Mr Lewis' "worst of all worlds" application, make you wonder how people could make such awful mistakes, but you then find yourself poking about your own business applications, looking for similar design suspects!
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From: Freeman, Donald [mailto:dofreeman_at_state.pa.us]
Sent: 27 Jun 2005 16:16
To: mark.powell_at_eds.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: In a far away land ...
That's all we're getting this year. The sequel (SQL?) will be out next year.
Don Freeman
Database Administrator 1
Bureau of Information Technology
Pennsylvania Department of Health
717-783-8095 Ext 337
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On
Behalf Of Powell, Mark D
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:42 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: In a far away land ...
Tom, I almost always find stories based on stupidity and/or short sited thinking to be of interest. I have been the victim of both problems a couple of times.
IMHO -- Mark D Powell --
-----Original Message-----
From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
[mailto:Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:30 AM
To: Powell, Mark D; karai.ramesh_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: In a far away land ...
And who cares?
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
On Behalf Of Powell, Mark D
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:26 AM
To: karai.ramesh_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: In a far away land ...
So what happened next and what was the problem?
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
On Behalf Of Ramesh FL
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 6:20 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: In a far away land ...
Since it is a week end, I thought I would share this non technical stuff with you:
In a far away land rich with natural resources, there is a big bank with branches all over the country.
They have many databases taking care of their every day business needs. Databases/applications are well implemented to the satisfaction of users. They work properly and give the desired output. Most things are automated: backup processes, cron jobs automate many other things. An operator takes care of changing the tapes. The DBA does not have much to do. The bank has lots of money. They even change the disks once a while, not waiting for the MTBF. Apparently, no modification was needed in the production system.
For several years nothing goes wrong with the database. DBA leaves to pursue
other opportunities. The management decides not to replace the production
DBA. They do not see the need for replacing the DBA. (I dont know about
patches and upgrades, restores and other things... ) After all nothing went
wrong in the years when the DBA was there. (It seems there was only one
DBA).
But it so happened after the DBA left, one fine morning, a main mission
critical application dies, because of some problem (later they came to know
because of some database issue). That day business in all the branches of
the bank all through the country had to be conducted with papers,
transactions recorded in papers.
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