Re: Another note on "Best Practices" for DataGuard, Oracle Services and RAC

From: Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:03:04 +0100
Message-ID: <713d96d10906290803v86cb110w1285c2b13964412b_at_mail.gmail.com>

"If we can only learn from our own mistakes and are prevented from applying the hard lessons learned from other people I guess we would not be communicating using computers today..."

And we wouldnt be contributing to this list!

2009/6/29 Barun, Vlado <Vlado.Barun_at_jtv.com>

> I agree that we see a lot of misuse of the term "best practice" today, and
> understandably it has become popular to criticize this misuse.
>
> However, the statement "Copying someone else's apparent success is like
> cheating on a test. " in the link referenced below ignores a major reason
> for progress in the past thousands of years of human history.
>
> If we can only learn from our own mistakes and are prevented from applying
> the hard lessons learned from other people I guess we would not be
> communicating using computers today...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
> On Behalf Of Stephane Faroult
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:23 AM
> To: jkstill_at_gmail.com
> Cc: sacrophyte_at_gmail.com; ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Another note on "Best Practices" for DataGuard, Oracle
> Services and RAC
>
> Jared Still wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte_at_gmail.com
> > <mailto:sacrophyte_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I still want to know who defines what the heck "Best Practice"
> > means anyway. =) I wonder what would happen if I put that into all
> > my documentation from here on out......
> >
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/best-practices-ktjr
> >
> > If you don't want to read the entire article, skip to the last sentence.
> >
> > Jared Still
> > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
> >
> In the same spirit, there is also this:
>
> http://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/gcaprules.html#tth_sEc1.2
>
> All the manifesto is a good read, by the way ..
>
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> Stephane Faroult
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