Re: Flippin Consultants!

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 07:53:10 -0500
Message-ID: <ad3aa4c90905150553l1c2c5fa0i22db7b104cfab560_at_mail.gmail.com>

Calm down and check your English syntax:

...don’t think they are currently transportable currently...

But you might find out why he is doing this before you lose your temper too badly.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Just sent this to a consultant working here - Am I right to be cross?
>
> Exporting 25 gig of data and copying it and importing has many risks.
> The amount of archivelogs produced will slow you down hugely as will index
> creation.
> You will probably have to have several goes. And disk space is getting
> tight on box2
> I would suggest you use transportable table spaces. I don’t think they are
> currently transportable currently otherwise you could have used the backup I
> am doing now.
>
> I have freed some space on box2 but please don’t start copying until my
> test is done. Its pretty hard to get a test slot and copying large files
> would slow things down.
>
> You could also use the rman backups.
>
> Also please do me the courtesy of letting me know when you are embarking on
> exercises that will have a major impact on our servers. I am after all
> supposed to be looking after all the Linux Boxes and all the databases.
>
>
> --
> Howard A. Latham
>
>
>

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Received on Fri May 15 2009 - 07:53:10 CDT