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Opinion on "expert" DBA

From: blah <blah_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2000/03/17
Message-ID: <38D3107D.A9F43078@yahoo.com>#1/1

What is the opinion here of a DBA who says they are an expert, yet the following is
performance:

  1. Default settings on all tablespaces, and tables carrrying over these defaults
  2. Doesn't know how a temporary tablespace is set up (and thus sets up temp tablespaces as permanant objects).
  3. Says they only perform an hour of DBA work each day -- with five multi GB databases.
  4. Says the databases are "all running fine" and thus doesn't have anything to do.
  5. Doesn't have any documentation on schema or monitoring
  6. When asked about performance monitoring to MAKE SURE the databases are running fine, shows you a couple of shell scripts to check for cache hit ratios.
  7. Says they want to upgrade to a new release of Oracle "without implementing the features or telling anyone they are upgrading". (in a 24X7 shop where at two of the applications aren't even supported on the realease). Doesn't know the new release either. Says it's just the same (i.e. Oracle 8 (running snapshots) vs. Oracle 8.1)

etc. etc. etc.

Just curious as to what is going on with this DBA, as I was brought in as a consultant to clean up a production machine that seemed to be used for both production and development. Sorry if this isn't an appropriate post for this board, but .... Received on Fri Mar 17 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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