Re: Opinion on "expert" DBA

Three things I would ask:

1 are the databases meeting the business objectives 2 is there a solid backup and recovery plan 3 is the OFA being followed

If the three above are being met, I'd tread lightly on blowing any whistles. The upgrade thing does sound suspect however.

Mike

blah <blah_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:38D3107D.A9F43078_at_yahoo.com...
> What is the opinion here of a DBA who says they are an expert, yet the
> following is
> performance:
>
> 1. Default settings on all tablespaces, and tables carrrying over these
> defaults
> 2. Doesn't know how a temporary tablespace is set up (and thus sets up
> temp tablespaces as permanant objects).
> 3. Says they only perform an hour of DBA work each day -- with five
> multi GB databases.
> 4. Says the databases are "all running fine" and thus doesn't have
> anything to do.
> 5. Doesn't have any documentation on schema or monitoring
> 6. When asked about performance monitoring to MAKE SURE the databases
> are running fine, shows you a couple of shell scripts to check for cache
> hit ratios.
> 7. Says they want to upgrade to a new release of Oracle "without
> implementing the features or telling anyone they are upgrading". (in a
> 24X7 shop where at two of the applications aren't even supported on the
> realease). Doesn't know the new release either. Says it's just the
> same (i.e. Oracle 8 (running snapshots) vs. Oracle 8.1)
>
> etc. etc. etc.
>
> Just curious as to what is going on with this DBA, as I was brought in
> as a consultant to clean up a production machine that seemed to be used
> for both production and development. Sorry if this isn't an appropriate
> post for this board, but ....
>
Received on Sun Mar 19 2000 - 00:00:00 CST