Re: What is exactly Oracle Financial: Warning - OFF TOPIC

"Karsten Farrell" <kfarrell_at_belgariad.com> wrote in message news:nXc_9.58$xd3.12118208_at_newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
> Tanel Poder wrote:
> > I think the name for whole pack is E-Business Suite now, at least for
11i.
> > Applications is the old name for 10.7.
> > If you like patching a lot, start/continue your career as Apps DBA ;)
> >
> > Tanel.
> I think you're right about an ERP DBA (whether Oracle or SAP or
> whatever). They have many duties very different than a "regular" DBA,
> leaning more toward a typical "production" DBA. The application adopts a
> "hands-off" attitude, leaving the DBA little to do other than monitor
> tablespaces and adopt a good backup/recovery plan. Oh, and as you noted,
> applying a continual stream of patches - mostly against the application
> rather than the database.
>
> And another thing this DBA faces is requests from management to get
> "custom" data out of the database. After all, a DBA should be able to
> write a few SELECT statements. Ever try to reverse engineer Oracle
> Financials into an ERD? Maybe it's easier with 11i ... but with the
> older product, that's one picture that wasn't worth a thousand words.
>

Someone asked me today if I could reverse engineer Peoplesoft HR into Oracle Designer, to produce an ERD.

I said yes, I could, but I didn't think it would help very much, since the diagram would have 3000 boxes, with no lines joining them....

Regards,
Paul Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 14:42:29 CST