Re: command line vs grid control

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:37:08 +0200, GD <goran99_remove_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>How do you invoke rman if you use it? Why wouldn't you use a shell
>script to do that?
>

two words
hardcoded passwords.
At one of those users has SYSDBA privilege by design
>>
>> Take the tool of your choice and see whether you can:
>>
>> Use block change tracking
>> Perform block media recovery
>>
>> The answer in both cases is no.
>
>Probably true, but why would you terminate people who use
>perl/shell/whatever scripts to invoke whatever backup tool?
>
>Regards

Why would you continue to use a 'backup tool' which isn't integrated with Oracle at all, which does generate *more* redo during backup, which doesn't automate your backup and which doesn't automate your restore/ recovery?
Rman has been around since 1998. People who still don't know about it need either to be trained or shown to the door of unemployment.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA