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Re: Alert log

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:46:34 -0700
Message-ID: <1090543619.371602@yasure>


sybrandb_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> "Christian Antognini" <christian.antognini_at_trivadis.com> wrote in message news:<40ff6c50_at_post.usenet.com>...
>

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>>Hi Burt
>>
>>
>>>Only DBAs should be allowed to login to the server.
>>>
>>>But, I could see the DBA copying a session trace (udump) to some place
>>>outside the server if a Developer wants to run tkprof on a traced session.
>>
>>I'll never understand why DBA don't consider to give read only accounts to
>>access the files under udump and bdump!!! It makes live easier for both, the
>>DBA and the developer...
>>
>>Chris
>>

>
> Apparently you like to live in a mess. In my experience most
> developers I work with have 0 (that is ZERO) knowledge of Oracle.
> Usually they also don't know how to program, and they just learned how
> to hit a few buttons.
> There is NO ADVANTAGE at all to provide incompetent developers access
> to the bdump directory. Likely they will only screw up the database
> more,
>
> I'll never understand why a DBA would consider to give access to the
> bdump to directory to developers who even don't WANT to work together
> with the DBA because they ASSUME they know EVERYTHING better. Those
> developers are a pest and should be kept out as much as possible,
> because they'll ALWAYS blame the DBA when THEY make a mistake.
>
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA

If the access is read only ... so what? Those that are asking for it are   probably the ones that are actually worth giving it to. Those that don't ask probably don't even know it is there.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 19:46:34 CDT

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