From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Sep 19 08:36:49 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8JDamI7030787 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:36:48 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8JDaf6H030757 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:36:41 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 780F11EE487; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:36:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03154-09; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:36:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id ED8A91EE499; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:36:30 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=pq1fBttEyPOOVRD9o8RK5hCwQlVxXtYSBGoZS6Vl9J9Z8biwVBuTnVMDUu+rRCBpeT/KBCm6Exo28t6Z40gVHQnrkpXaaw4ssIZ+HEaeOz9k0E5Dw+nZ9fM+D13fYXQyLOIXnlor4pW3IGKNVl33mkY9j2N7h8+SCNkvqZPdxWo= Message-ID: <7765c897050919063432c9734c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:34:39 +0100 From: Niall Litchfield To: tomday2@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT - Advice for the Oracle Newbie Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_34488_3718340.1127136879255" References: <4DAD363750.095C003ATFSAETFE@greenshield.ca> <1127055398.432d8026dc878@webmail.hosting.telus.net> X-archive-position: 25633 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: niall.litchfield@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: niall.litchfield@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_Part_34488_3718340.1127136879255 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline senior dbas that forgot that one little detail, but didn't script and=20 practice it first because they know it all already are probably right up=20 there as well.=20 On 9/19/05, Thomas Day wrote:=20 >=20 >=20 > The most important thing that I learned as a newbie DBA was to never "fix= "=20 > a problem in a way that couldn't be undone. Never delete an OS file; alwa= ys=20 > rename the file. If everything's still fine after 2 months then consider= =20 > deleting the renamed file.=20 > I suspect that new DBAs have caused more full recoveries that any other= =20 > source. > Just my $.02 (US). >=20 --=20 Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com ------=_Part_34488_3718340.1127136879255 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline senior dbas that forgot that one little detail, but didn't script and pract= ice it first because they know it all already are probably right up there a= s well.




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