Re: DBAs and System Managers - War and Peace?

In article <45e2fr$lsf_at_news.iastate.edu>, Richard G Ramirez <ramirez_at_iastate.edu> wrote:
>
>I started consulting for a company and suggested to the system
>manager that we should mirror the log files to two or more disks
>and possibly separate some data files. Right now the entire
>database is on a single disk.
>
>He jumped at this and swore that he would never do it. He further
>indicated that my predecessor wanted the same thing (surprise!)
>and that we were crazy.
>

So, what's the point? You might want to have the SysAdmin people run whatever utilities they have (if this is Unix, SAR would be a good place to start) to look at the activity on the dis. If there's a bottleneck, then that should be reason enough to move things around. If there's no bottleneck, then I would have to agree with him.

Clay Jackson
I speak for myself only, not Sequent Received on Mon Oct 23 1995 - 00:00:00 CET