Re: My woes continue

Get a new DBA.
Your DBA seems to think that "his" database should be idle 100% of the time or else it will crash.
(BTW: I think that your DBA believes that any ORACLE ERROR messages mean the database has crashed)

Garry Lawton <Garry.Lawton_at_uibk.ac.at> wrote in article <5q291r$esq$1_at_dm2.uibk.ac.at>...
> In article <33c3df20.21069889_at_resunix.sickkids.on.ca>,
> owrkrj_at_mailhub.sickkids.on.ca says...
> >
> >To all DBA's:
> >My DBA is making my job rather difficult, but I'm having trouble
> >exposing some of his incompetencies to my superiors... Should any of
> >the following statements be true for a well-tuned Oracle 7.3.2
> >database server running on an IBM AIX and serving an organization of
> >50 users, about 15 of whom are data entry staff, and about 10 of whom
> >run regular queries and reports:
> >
> >1) A complex query can 'crash' the database and cause corruption of
> >data.
> >
> >2) Running Personal Oracle on a client (user) machine can 'crash' the
> >database and cause corruption of data
> >
> >3) Running Developer/2000 on a client machine can 'crash' the database
> >and cause corruption of data.
> >
> >My suspicion is that if any of these are true, there is a server
> >tuning problem. My DBA is suggesting no queries be run while data
> >entry is occuring (during business hours) and is threatening to remove
> >Personal Oracle and Dev/2000 from my computer because of the damage
> >I'm supposedly causing. Am I going crazy?
Received on Thu Jul 10 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT