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I hope baffoon does read newsgroup or DBA will be unemployed.
"Domenic G." <domenicg_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Me: Why aren't we using RMAN?
> Boss: We use export db.
> Me: But these are production databases!
> Boss: So.
> Me: RMAN is great, let's you even recover corrupted blocks.
> Boss: We don't need that.
>
> Next conversation ...
>
> Boss: Call Sun and get them to send a rep over for a cluster purchase.
> Me: OK.
> Sun: So what kind of solution do you want?
> Boss: The solution with the highest availability.
> Sun: Do you want disaster recovery?
> Boss: No, we can afford to be down for 2 weeks.
> Me: Pissing my pants.
>
> These are true stories -- is this guy a bafoon or what?
>
> Domenic.
Received on Sat Nov 01 2003 - 23:25:32 CST