Re: Outrage that OCP exams are now unproctored - Comments?

I'll admit it, I am not a DBA anywhere else but at home (8.1.5,8.1.7 and 9.2) but I would be interestested in in learning how to cause and interpret a block dump. ? I did a google search of the newsgroups and found a few examples of how to do it but nothing in enough detail to explain how to read it or even why I would need to dump a block much less how to determine the block to dump. Can anyone recommend a good source for learning this?

(possible joke topics to expound upon include: Asking the world how to take a dump, OCP = Oracle Constipated Professional/Oracle Clueless Professional and decodeing a dump by hand.)

Have a nice day
Chris

> >
> > >"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> > >news:_rAQ9.14176$jM5.38187_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > >> Personally, if a person doesn't know how to do a block dump and
> interpret
> > >> the results properly, s/he shouldn't call himself/herself a DBA. And
if
> > >> there's one thing you won't learn on any OCP-based Oracle training
> course,
> > >> it's how to do a block dump.
Received on Fri Jan 03 2003 - 08:06:02 CST