Peter van Rijn wrote:
>>Zip. I think you're talking about DUL, which is a Support tool, not
>
> Consulting.
>
>>And IIRC, it MUST be used by a support engineer, rather than anyone else.
>>
>>Pete
>
>
> Peter, you ARE correct. It was developped by Bernard van Duijnen, who is
> (was?) employed by Oracle Support in The Netherlands. You cannot get the
> tool without a Support Analyst to use it, and although it's reputation is
> wide spread and most certainly has saved many databases (and their DBA!) no
> success is guaranteed.
>
> Peter van Rijn
>
>
You are correct. However, when I worked as an Oracle consultant for a
very brief time (didn't like the 100% travel), every consultant was
given a Toshiba laptop loaded with Oracle-supplied tools and utilities
... and guess what we found in one of the folders on that laptop?
Yes, it is a Support tool ... but we all knew what it was and what it
was suposedly capable of doing. And if I had used it to rescue a
customer's data ... well, let's just say that my upline manager would
have received a bonus on his next paystub ... and wouldn't have been
very willing to split hairs over who officially "owned" the code. I
never did use it, however, so I can't speak for its real-life effectiveness.
Received on Mon Jan 06 2003 - 16:35:54 CST
