Re: Multiple installations of oracle on a single unix system

Hi David,

> It wasn't my idea!

I didn't wanto to critize you.

> This wasn't the only adventure I had there either. We had told them not
> to bother with raw devices when installing our product but they insisted.

Why make things easy if you can make them complicated.

>
> A week later they demanded that I show up on site *the next day* because
> our application 'wasn't working'. They were located 9 time zones from
> us! $7000 and one night in business class later I get off the plane at
> 7am, get to their office by 8:30AM, find an index with 250,000 (yes,
> that's thousands) extents by 9am and by 9:15AM have established that
> when creating one of raw devices they entered '10K' instead of '10M' for
> NEXT when specifying default storage parameters for the tablespace.

The poor dba, now working in botswana as a dish washer !?

We are all humans which make errors. I wouldn't be too angry to this person.

>
> I spent the next two days doing everything I could not to crack up
> laughing every time I spoke to them.......

Glad to hear you take it with a laugh.
Management does everything to make your job as a dba/consulter save.

Please more stories of this sort! Made my day.

kind regards,

Toni Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 09:04:25 CDT