RE: all time worst question I have been ever asked as a DBA
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:29:41 -0500
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In a former life, I called the help desk because I was having an issue with my machine connecting to our local Oracle database that I was the DBA on. I was prety sure it was some issue with the client but we did not get to admin our own PCs so I was out of luck in doing anything about it myself .
The help desk actually told me to "Shut your PC down by powering it off. Now turn it on. When you see the OS/2 load screen, shut it down real fast." He told me to do this 3 times. Wondering where he was going with this, I did it. I was stuck without a connection anyway. He then told me "OK. Your machine should be fixed now. Go ahead and connect.". I tried. And, as I expected, the failure still happened.
He next said "OK. Let me call the Subject Mater Expert I have on record in your location." As I was waiting for this to happen, my other line range. It was the Help Desk calling me about this guy who was having trouble connecting to our local Oracle Database.
You think he might have noticed a simularity in the names.
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Subject: RE: all time worst question I have been ever asked as a DBA
Or:
We don't need to backup the database. We can rebuild our 3 terabyte db with our text files!
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Subject: Re: all time worst question I have been ever asked as a DBA
I got a phone call from somebody who could not print a document, he did it because in the login banner there was a message saying something like "call this number for oracle database problems".
printer problems = oracle database problems (a well known axiom...)
yeah... right :)
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
A good friend of mine used to say, "If it has a 'D' in it, it's a database issue." When I was an DEC Rdb DBA, I used to get paged for issues even whey they had determined it didn't touch a database...just in case it was a database issue.
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