Re: How to determine if a database is in use?
From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:25:02 -0400
Message-ID: <570F9A2E.90103_at_gmail.com>
On 04/13/2016 05:46 PM, Oracle DBA wrote:
> Thanks everyone,
> I won't do individual replies but some good info.,
> Mladen, I had thought of your idea and I like it very much, but upper
> management will take that as a cowboy tactic and in the event of
> actual downtime if its still being used then they will get stoppy, its
> already hard enough to promote IT as having good service, but that
> will give the end users more ammo against IT. But yes switch off and
> wait for the screams.
>
Well, Mark Farnham actually has an excellent idea: put the instance into restricted session mode and leave it like that for a while.
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:25:02 -0400
Message-ID: <570F9A2E.90103_at_gmail.com>
On 04/13/2016 05:46 PM, Oracle DBA wrote:
> Thanks everyone,
> I won't do individual replies but some good info.,
> Mladen, I had thought of your idea and I like it very much, but upper
> management will take that as a cowboy tactic and in the event of
> actual downtime if its still being used then they will get stoppy, its
> already hard enough to promote IT as having good service, but that
> will give the end users more ammo against IT. But yes switch off and
> wait for the screams.
>
Well, Mark Farnham actually has an excellent idea: put the instance into restricted session mode and leave it like that for a while.
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA http://mgogala.freehostia.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Apr 14 2016 - 15:25:02 CEST