Perhaps he gets paid by the hour. If they want to use him to do that ...
"Tanel Poder" <change_to_my_first_name_at_integrid.info> wrote in message
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>
> "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 Mon Sep 15 2003 - 05:50:00 CDT
