Re: Fed Up with being a DBA

Have you ever liked being a DBA ?

It seems to me if you really liked doing this job, then those things wouldn't make you "fed up" with doing this job.

And if you never really liked doing this job and spent "several years" doing it, then it sounds like you made a mistake long time ago and should get out as soon as possible and do something you like (at least a little).

Doing a job you really don't like (no matter how good you are at it) sounds like a bad way to spend most of your life .

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"Domenic G." <domenicg_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

>

> 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