Re: EM access to developers

From: Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:44:17 -0700
Message-ID: <54CC1751.7000406_at_gmail.com>



+1 on the access for developers

+1 on the 'The current crop of tools don't support ...', but I understand that OEM team is looking at this closely.

/Hans

On 30/01/2015 4:23 PM, Iggy Fernandez wrote:
> I'm in favor of separation of duties and specialization but, in my
> book, the application developers who developed the application are
> responsible for all aspects of application performance not the
> database administrators and therefore I want to give developers
> complete and unfettered access to performance information. That
> includes Statspack, AWR, ASH, 10053 traces, 10046 traces, and
> real-time information. The current crop of tools don't support this
> very well and, in my book, that's a design defect.
>
> Iggy
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:07:53 +0000
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> To: ian_at_slac.stanford.edu; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Re: EM access to developers
>
> Are we strictly talking about non-database developers here?
> As a database developer, I get a lot of my projects by watching the
> performance pages in OEM and finding queries that are either slow, or
> are being slowed due to concurrency conflicts. You might say OEM
> gives me a large portion of my projects. Granted, I could get them
> straight from the database in the tables OEM uses, but OEM is a much
> quicker method when you're exploring recent history.
> Stephen
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> *From:* "MacGregor, Ian A." <ian_at_slac.stanford.edu>
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> *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2015 3:01 PM
> *Subject:* RE: EM access to developers
>
> Both SQL*Developer and OEM provide capabilities which are useful
> to DBA's and developers. In OEM you can control access to a
> target, and ensure that access is read only, but you really cannot
> control which panels a user sees. Much of what is presented is of
> little value to the developer.
>
> What developers want from OEM is to be able to view the overall health
> of the system, and whether any malaise is being caused by what they
> support. OEM comes closer to providing this than SQL Developer but
> is not there yet. It's been a few years since I looked at the SQL
> Developer capabilities in this area it seemed that it required giving
> a way the keys of the kingdom.
>
> Another problem with granting OEM access to developers is the load it
> may place on the OMS.
>
> Ian MacGregor
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> Hi Pete,
> I beg to differ. EM is a DB management tool and I cannot fathom what
> would developers do with it? SQL plans are available from SQL
> Developer. Developers should use development tools, DBA should use
> management tools. It's not us and them, it's a division of labor. I
> doubt that developers would be interested in how long did the backup
> run or how many log switches are generated during the peek time
> business hours. So, it's us using EM and them using SQL Developer and
> Eclipse. That's just the natural order of things.
>
> On 01/30/2015 02:28 PM, Peter Sharman wrote:
>
>
> Quick answer: Not enough. J
>
>
>
> As Courtney mentioned, a lot more is possible more easily with
> EM12c than in previous releases. We really should be getting away
> from the “us versus them” mentality we’ve had for way too long between
> DBA’s and developers. As DBA’s, give the developers access so they
> can do their job properly but in a secured manner. As developers, use
> the tools that have been provided to understand and resolve your issues.
>
>
>
> Easy, right? ;)
>
>
>
> Pete
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> From: kyle Hailey [mailto:kylelf_at_gmail.com <mailto:kylelf_at_gmail.com>]
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 4:15 AM
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> Subject: EM access to developers
>
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>
>
>
> Quick poll : how many folks give developers logins to EM?
>
> Last I was talking to people about 4 years ago no one was doing
> that. Have times changed?
>
> I know EM Express looks perfect for developers but I'm asking
> about access to regular EM.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Kyle Hailey
>
> http://kylehailey.com <http://kylehailey.com/>
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> Mladen Gogala
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