Re: guideline for creating temporary (working) table

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1076533780.494495_at_yasure>...
> Joel Garry wrote:
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> > I notice Mark is much more careful than Dan about not excluding DBA's
> > :-)
> >
> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > http://www.showcase.netins.net/web/clevad/weird.htm
>
> I never exclude DBAs. Provided, of course, they actually have skills
> that go beyond the ability to create users, patch the software,
> backup the system, and pray they never have to recover due to a
> failure.
>
> That is unfortunately a very small percentage of extant DBAs

Backup / Recovery is the #1 skill a DBA needs to master (IMHO). Everyhing else can be added later.

Well, tablespace management is important too (maybe not anymore)... And some tuning skills...
And scripting...

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