Re: The Dan Tools

Is this the Dan Bikle I know from BT North America? I am also consulting at Sun, although my email is temporarily hosed there. Call me at 408-438-5072 any time. I'm at SunSoft off of San Antonio Road, Bldg 8.

In Article<9510312308.AA00769_at_dba.EBay.Sun.COM>, <Dan.Bikle_at_Ebay.Sun.COM> write:
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> Subject: The Dan Tools
> Date: 31 Oct 1995 23:23:49 GMT
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> Pierce,
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> They might work on an NT korn shell.
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> If not, throw them in the trash and refuse to pay me.
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> Even on UNIX they would be considered pre-alpha quality.
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> But they have saved me and my customers many hours of
> DBA grunt work.
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> They are excellent tools for generating lots of adhoc
> sql scripts and adhoc shell scripts.
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> In the hands of an experienced DBA they are very useful.
> In the hands of an un-experienced DBA they are downright dangerous.
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> I saw one dba use my database rebuilder (DRBDB) to remove some
> raw devices. I should have a statement in there that says you
> only need to remove data files if they are in the unix file system.
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> The scripts are here: ftp.rahul.net:/pub/dbikle/*tar.Z
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> -Dan
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Received on Sun Nov 05 1995 - 00:00:00 CET