Re: system update
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:10:16 +0200
Message-ID: <48ff0a23$0$190$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
"gazzag" <gareth_at_jamms.org> schreef in bericht news:3139c305-5f67-44b1-862f-88f56adf1cb1_at_d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... On 21 Oct, 23:09, "Mr. Chow Wing Siu" <wsc..._at_Comp.HKBU.Edu.HK> wrote:
Comments embedded.
> If it's linux, why not install the operating system and database
> onto a virtual machine for testing? It costs nothing.
>
> By the way, you also need to practise update glibc library and
> downgrade it (during when the operating crashes).
>
> Either you can or cannot do it. Please formally and officially
> seek your boss's approval before doing anything into production system.
This is definitely the salient point. I would want an e-mail (at
least) from my boss agreeing that, due to a lack of a test
environment, he/she is happy for an untested system-wide change to be
deployed straight into the production environment. Of course, if I
was your boss, I would then require a similar assurance from my boss
and so on and so fifth :)
>
> --
> Johnson Chow
HTH -g
Unfortnately, in a lot of cases the boss will bounce back the question to the same DBA....
Shakespeare Received on Wed Oct 22 2008 - 06:10:16 CDT