On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:39:38 GMT, "Ana C. Dent"
<anacedent_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>rich <rschneid_at_nsf.gov> wrote in news:1182292837.263526.111450
>@u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:
>
>> All, it is a very unfortunate situation. The prior DBA was there for
>> 13 years, during which time he wrote many 15+ triggers to handle a
>> single batch process that happens about every 2 years. There is no
>> source control, there is no backup system, there is no development
>> platform. Every possible system development design guideline was
>> broken. New junior DBA is appointed. He does not know how to program
>> and probably had never seen a trigger before. He did not know the
>> triggers were there or important. So somehow some of the key base
>> tables get dropped and so go the underlying triggers. I am brought on
>> board as a general purpose troubleshooter. I have never seen Oracle
>> before this ( but I have spent 15 years with Sybase [ no offense
>> intended ] SPs, triggers etc., programming, debugging). So I quickly
>> discover that something is not quite right when I see all of these red
>> "INVALID" statements next to some triggers using DBArtizan. I try to
>> look at the trigger code, but there is none there. I ask around and
>> discover that the system relies heavily on triggers to kick off the
>> package/body functions. The package functions/sps are all there but
>> the calls went audios with the triggers. So now I want to see the
>> code for the original triggers. There isn't any. It is either in the
>> Unix/System backup of the .dbf files or its nowhere. Any help with
>> this mess would be greatly appreaciated. As it is I am re-engineering
>> one trigger at a time.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> Rich S.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Others can fill in the details following my sparse description.
>Oracle Corp has a utility (DUL?) which can "mine" the system*dbf file
>for the trigger source.
>The Urban Legend is that it does a reasonably good job but it is VERY
>costly to get required Oracle consultant to drive this magical s/w.
>
>HTH & YMMV!
Apart from that DUL seems to be incapable of retrieving the original
object names. This may be a problem.
--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 00:44:10 CDT
