Re: Oracle DBA

From: Chuck Hamilton <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:55:58 -0400
Message-ID: <9ofdcr$cjhg2$1@ID-85580.news.dfncis.de>

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Ban Spam" <ban-spam_at_operamail.com> wrote in message news:Xns9122B2BA9FF89SunnySD_at_24.0.3.73... B MAC <gucciard_at_creek.uh.edu> wrote in
news:Pine.OSF.4.33.0109201317580.808337-100000_at_creek.uh.edu:

> This brings to another question:
>
> Are DBAs allowed to take long vacations, or do companies discourage
> their DBAs from doing that considering the database may crash?
>
> Thanks again.

Sure. As long as someone can cover for you while you're gone. If you don't have a backup, you should at least cross-train someone who's capable to do the basic day to day stuff like extending tablespaces, starting/stopping instances, etc.

I took 3 weeks this past June to camp my way from Pennsylvania to the Grand Canyon and back. Left the pager at home and forgot about work for nearly a month. But then again we have 2 full time DBAs and one manager who used to be a full time DBA.

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