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What would you call an interesting day...?

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: 11 Feb 2004 22:59:51 -0800
Message-ID: <1a75df45.0402112259.408ad782@posting.google.com>


It likely depends on your definition of "interesting".

There is an old Chinese curse that goes something like "may you lead an interesting life". Which rings true at times.

                        A Description of The Interesting Times 
                               in The Life of an Oracle DBA 
                                         (feel free to add to list)

  1. Being introduced, by developers, to many new, unknown, wonderfully weird and heavily interesting ORA-0600's. Like [kksscl-inf-inl-loop].
  2. Seeing that RAM can never be enough. ORA-27102: out of memory. Caused by the dedicated devotion of those that mastered The SQL That Does Little But Consumes Vast Amounts Of Memory.
  3. Seeing that Space can never be enough. Not when Data is kicked around between tables as part of The Process.
  4. Getting a "ksh: cannot fork: no swap space" when trying to run SQL*Plus. (<humming> where has all the swap space gone.. long time ago.. where has all the swap space gone... long time ago.. the PGA ate them everyone.. the PGA ate them... everyone...)
  5. Listening for the umpteenth time that Interesting Times, Event Horizons and Data Warps are caused by Faults, Problems, Errors and Bugs in Oracle.
  6. When swinging the old lead pipe becomes a daily chore instead of The Occasional Fun Thing.
  7. When you feel the need to start making lists like this...
--
Billy
Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 00:59:51 CST

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