Re: Rule number 1 of an Oracle recovery process

Hi Niall,

It's great being one of those David Bowie type DBAs. With the headphones on, humming away, databases could be crashing, phones could be ringing, place could be falling apart around you and you never know.

Ignorance, it's a beautiful thing ;)

Cheeky

Richard
"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:3d63bd58$0$8511$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
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> > TAKE AN IMMEDIATE BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT CONTROLFILES, IF THEY ARE
> > ACCESSIBLE.
> >
>
> I always thought Rule Number 1 was 'IMMEDIATELY TAKE A COMPLETE NEW BACKUP
> OF YOUR DISASTER', though this can be hard to explain to management types.
>
> "But why would you want to back up the mess we are in now?"
> "Because I don't want it to get any worse than it already is"
> "What sort of DBA are you if you are just going to make things worse?"
> "Umm, well, that is to say er. "
> "You aren't one of those David Bowie type DBAs by any chance?"
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> :-(
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> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Received on Wed Aug 21 2002 - 21:33:04 CDT