Re: Australian trip.

I whole heartly agree with the thanks to all the good folks that spend their valuable time answering questions in the group. Not enough thanks is given, soooo Thanks to all, also.

Guy G wrote:

> Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<Xns9374CFBAF55A9Tokenthis_at_210.49.20.254>...
> > Following up on Franklin, 07 May 2003:
> >
> > > Jonathan is allow to spam this group, but God help anyone else who
> > > tries it. . . .
> >
> > Oh, you're free to "try" it...
> > ;)
> >
> >
> > On the serious side: Jonathan "spams" his *knowledge* here.
> > Not commercial software products.
> >
> > Knowledge which he also freely and abundantly shares with
> > everyone here regardless of their location, position
> > and/or experience.
> >
> > That in my book entitles him to "spam" as much as he wants,
> > anytime he feels like doing it, with no strings attached
> > anywhere!
> >
> > Of course: IMHO, YMMV, no animals hurt testing these products, etcetc.
>
> Amen. Thought I'd take the opportunity to thank Jonathan, and the
> others in this newsgroup (you know who you are) for sharing their
> knowledge and experience here.
>
> I am an experienced Sybase DBA (if anyone here thinks that's an
> oxymoron, OK by me) who early this year inherited the task of managing
> two "medium-sized" (200 GB or so) Oracle databases. Took the
> Enterprise DBA course in January, Backup/Recovery in February. No
> in-house expertise to lean on. Well, it's May now, and I still
> haven't had to post a question to this newsgroup - Jonathan and the
> others have so far answered every one, and then some. And, believe
> me, I did not inherit a smooth-running system here.
>
> So, I hope Jonathan continues to host his seminars, and continues to
> inform us about them. Can't get to Australia now, but you never know
> ...
>
> I hope someday I'll know enough to actually be of help here; for now
> I'll humbly (I hope) take what's offered here.
>
> Trick question:
>
> Design a reasonable backup strategy, given the following:
>
> - Your datafiles total 345 GB
> - You have 170 GB of disk available for backups
> - Tape backup is not an option
> - Your redo logs switch 5-6 times per hour; size is 200MB
> - Database must be online 24 X 7, or close to it
>
> Finally got to ask a question!
>
> Anyway, thanks to everyone for your help.
>
> - Guy
Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 22:12:57 CDT