Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized?

"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:1113812644.473122.29790_at_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.

As very known, there are still some issues f.ex with complex views.

Jack Received on Mon Apr 18 2005 - 04:53:15 CDT