Re: dbms_job question

Comments in-line.

Volker Hetzer wrote:

>OTOH I'm using cron for the rman backups. This has nothing to
>do with the CAD library running on the db and when the db is
>down or there's trouble I still want the email at least that one time
>when the trouble surfaces. Of course, I'm assuming here that in
>case of trouble the OS is more likely to survive than the db.
>

A reasonably safe assumption in that the reserve can't possibly be true.

>SA's outside QA? I see a picture in my mind of a business app
>running on a mailordered PC where "some" linux has been installed
>by a student and no one checks for faulty disks and then that same
>company employs a highly paid dba for twiddling with the
>init.ora parameters and balancing load and stuff. <Shudder>
>Fortunately I live in a different world.
>
>Lots of Greetings!
>Volker
>
>

I won't mention any names. But I can think a two Fortune 500 companies where I have consulted
on several occassions where every bit of code was pushed through an extensive QA process.
But no one ever ran QA on changes made to apps by SysAdmins or DBAs: Ever.

SAs were out there writing KSH and Perl, DBAs changing indexes, etc. And not once was their
work considered to be "development."

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