Re: loss of system datafile with no cold backup

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl wrote:

> I'm not sure whether such tool should exist to compensate for
> someone's carelessnes.

I don't know if someone who is handed the reigns of DBA is really being careless. They, both the person assigning the role and the person accepting the role probably had no idea what that term really meant until something drastic like this happens.

I would blaim this mentality on MS myself. People think that everything should be as easily installable as those products when they forget that with such ease you lose lots of power of knowing underneath the covers.

> Also any tool truly capable of unloading datafiles will soon be
> out of operation, due to legal circumstances: the tool will be
> violating licenses like no one did before.

How is trying to get at one's data from a database that one bought violating any agreements?

> I'm sure Larry will sue the person(s) distributing the
> tool. Why would he give away his crown jewels?

Just cause we don't use the tool that Larry's clan created? So, if someone has an interface better than sqlplus, are they to be sued as well?

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Galen
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