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Re: OT - Advice for the Oracle Newbie

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:34:39 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c897050919063432c9734c@mail.gmail.com>


senior dbas that forgot that one little detail, but didn't script and practice it first because they know it all already are probably right up there as well.

On 9/19/05, Thomas Day <tomday2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> The most important thing that I learned as a newbie DBA was to never "fix"
> a problem in a way that couldn't be undone. Never delete an OS file; always
> rename the file. If everything's still fine after 2 months then consider
> deleting the renamed file.
> I suspect that new DBAs have caused more full recoveries that any other
> source.
> Just my $.02 (US).
>

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Niall Litchfield
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