DBA Humor (Twisted, sick sort of stuff...)

From: <Christopher.Taylor2_at_parallon.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:24:32 -0500
Message-ID: <F05D8DF1FB25F44085DB74CB916678E8879B7DD6E7_at_NADCWPMSGCMS10.hca.corpad.net>

Funny thing happened today.
Database backup for one of my development databases failed last night due to a space issue. While fixing that issue today, we received an alert that the archivelog space was filling up.

Now, having sized these things fairly well, and not having these issues before, I started poking around (of course).

We're under some pretty tight deadlines right now and some of our devs were being really aggressive with their testing.

In the last 1.5 days we've generated over 500GB of archivelogs in this development instance.

Here's the kicker/humor:

The schema data itself is only 300GB! LOL (Personally, I thought that was funny)

So I asked the devs to modify what they're doing and to let me know what they need - if they really need to be doing this testing, we'll get the space they need.

Glad I'm on vacation next week...

Chris Taylor
Oracle DBA
Parallon IT&S

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