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Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:10:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1113804375.29417@yasure>


hpuxrac wrote:

>>What cost or risk in implementing RMAN?
>>RMAN has been around for generations of Oracle and it is now the

>
> best,
>
>>safest, fastest, and least cost back up strategy available.

>
>
> RMAN when it first came out was buggy and unuseable. People remember
> things like that.
>
> My opinion ... until 9i and the ability to handle control file
> implications better it was still unsuited to many if not most oracle
> installations.
>
> If you already had a viable working backup solution, many people have
> delayed implementing it.
>
> Even now I doubt if RMAN is used at more than 40% of customer sites if
> that.
>
> Now I am using RMAN. But many people are not and do not use it
> currently.
>
> "Around for generations" ... what are you smoking?

I remember many things from the past including the 60s. But time moves on ... things change ... and I no longer hold the Oracle 7 installer against Oracle. Time to let go of the first release of RMAN too. ;-)

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Mon Apr 18 2005 - 01:10:00 CDT

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