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)
- Being introduced, by developers, to many new, unknown, wonderfully
weird and heavily interesting ORA-0600's. Like [kksscl-inf-inl-loop].
- 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.
- Seeing that Space can never be enough. Not when Data is kicked
around between tables as part of The Process.
- 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...)
- Listening for the umpteenth time that Interesting Times, Event
Horizons and Data Warps are caused by Faults, Problems, Errors and
Bugs in Oracle.
- When swinging the old lead pipe becomes a daily chore instead of
The Occasional Fun Thing.
- When you feel the need to start making lists like this...
--
Billy
Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 00:59:51 CST