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Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized?

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: 18 Apr 2005 01:24:04 -0700
Message-ID: <1113812644.473122.29790@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>


DA Morgan wrote:
>
> As a DBA do you ask management to sanction using LMT rather than DMT?
Do
> you ask management if it is Ok to use UNDO rather than RBS? I don't
like
> your argument because as a DBA you are supposed to be a subject
matter
> expert. If you have tested RMAN and know how to implement it then you
> implement it just as you would any other similar question within your
> realm of expertise.

Very contingent on the type of site, Daniel. I am currently working at one that has the dubious "advantage" of being on DMT + RBO with 9ir2!!!!
The previous dba - for whatever reasons that don't matter here - decided
to leave the schema and the data at V7 while upgrading the db software to 9ir2. WTF for begs explaining, but let's ignore it...

With the result that I now have a headache of dinossauric proportions! And an app that "only works with RBO", or so the development manager has been led to believe.

So, my mission (should I accept it) is to: 1) convince the DM that contrary to what the previous dba told him, CBO in 9ir2 is darn good.
2) convince the DM to do testing of the app with 9ir2 + LMT + CBO. 3) convince the CTO that all this is worth doing when all he hears is that "MySql is free therefore must be good". 4) find a slot somewhere in a 24X7X365 system to do the necessary manipulations to get rid of the old stuff and put in the new with minimal disruption.
5) write a plan to implement 4) above in such a way that if ANYTHING goes wrong, even the proverbial pointy-hair damager can set things back the way they were.

Meanwhile, the backups are churning along with good old crontab/cpio. Do you think for a second I'm going to touch them AT ALL before I fix all the other crap?

NBW!!! (No-Bloody-Way!!!)

Life isn't always linear, my friend... Received on Mon Apr 18 2005 - 03:24:04 CDT

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