Re: Becoming an Oracle DBA (part 3)

Thanks

always interesting to see what people think of as standard hours. I tend to do the same. I've met people 'not into the long hours culture' who average maybe 50 a week!. I will probably pich your chaos reigns comment oin the future - it is truly apposite.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Steven Hauser" <hause011_at_garnet.tc.umn.edu> wrote in message
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> Niall Litchfield begs the question:

> >Just out of interest how many hours do you work per week. And is that in

 a


> >24/7 environment or a 9-5 place.

>

>

> 24/6.9 with Sunday as the designated maintain period.  I bill about

> 36 hours per week, wander in at about 10 or 11 in the morning, take off

> early to fish.  And yes I do some Sundays. But I take off Friday or

 Tuesday


> on those weeks.

>

> Of course, we run Unix, have big fault tolerant Terabyte disk arrays, hot

> backups to tape robots that have 10's of drives per robot and

> a seasoned group of pro-active Unix admins.

>

> We also do not let people develop code or log onto production

> systems and use a change control process which keeps systems

> stable and changes controlled.

>

> We also practice disaster recovery scenarios and goof around with

> our software so we know it and any recovery is just routine instead of

> a thrill ride down the spiral of death.

>

> If chaos reigns in your environment then it will rain chaos.

>

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