Re: Fed Up with being a DBA

"Domenic G." <domenicg_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c7e08a19.0309111612.69697120_at_posting.google.com...
> I don't know about all of you, but I'm fed up with being a DBA and
> working in the IT industry. I've been an Oracle DBA for several years
> now and pride myself on knowing Oracle like the back of my hand.

Heh-heh, if you would be that good DBA as you say, wouldn't you be able to deal only with the tasks which you choose to? E.g. I doubt Jonathan Lewis for example ever spends his time on boring troubleshooting issues like why client can't access it's database behind the firewall etc..

Tanel.

>
> Here are my gripes ...
>
> - third party apps that run on Oracle and designed like junk.
> - third party apps that insist on "GRANT DBA TO ..."
> - schemas with FKs that aren't indexed (man do I hate that!)
> - poorly written queries (EXISTS and IN are like cryptonite!)
> - the COST based optimizer which outsmarts itself more often than not
> so that I have to to /*+ ORDERED INDEX(a b) USE_NL (w x y z) */ to
> achieve the same thing as /*+ RULE */
> - schemas that still use CHAR(x)
> - DBAs who use DBCA to create a DB and it adds in all that unwanted
> JUNK!!
>
> Cheers ...
> Domenic
Received on Fri Sep 12 2003 - 03:56:05 CDT