This is an excellent thread BTW
we've been kicking it round the office trying to think of a solution;
nothing yet.
"Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message
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> "Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message
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> > In past I've encountered few times some databases specially
> > data warehouses, where its proud owner told me: "We're storing
> > 2TB right now and it will grow even further". And after that
> > I've realized that inside is a lot of irrelevant crap, which
> > is inside just because "maybe we will need this one day"
> > and no one was enough brave to told managers that this particular
> > information is an useless piece of sh*t.
> > Not mentioning redundant data, because data model is bad and/or
> > data cleaning was not sufficient or is not implemented at all.
> >
>
> Dusan,
>
> Right on.
>
> There are some DBAs who think they are macho because their DW is
> giant-sized. They didn't actually bother to ask what the business
> requirements were.....
>
> We even had one contract DBA who thought he could be clever by oversizing
> his tablespaces by so much that they were 95% empty... "I'm managing an
xxx
> size database; none of the others could do that"
>
> The naked emperor was, I am glad to say, exposed eventually.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 31 2003 - 04:48:17 CST
