Re: What would you call an interesting day...?

One more:

  Shared pool melted, ORA-4031s and developer's naive question - You saying to use what? bind variables?

:-)

"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:1a75df45.0402112259.408ad782_at_posting.google.com...
> It likely depends on your definition of "interesting".
>
> There is an old Chinese curse that goes something like "may you lead
> an interesting life". Which rings true at times.
>
>
> A Description of The Interesting Times
> in The Life of an Oracle DBA
> (feel free to add to list)
>
> 1. Being introduced, by developers, to many new, unknown, wonderfully
> weird and heavily interesting ORA-0600's. Like [kksscl-inf-inl-loop].
>
> 2. Seeing that RAM can never be enough. ORA-27102: out of memory.
> Caused by the dedicated devotion of those that mastered The SQL That
> Does Little But Consumes Vast Amounts Of Memory.
>
> 3. Seeing that Space can never be enough. Not when Data is kicked
> around between tables as part of The Process.
>
> 4. Getting a "ksh: cannot fork: no swap space" when trying to run
> SQL*Plus. (<humming> where has all the swap space gone.. long time
> ago.. where has all the swap space gone... long time ago.. the PGA ate
> them everyone.. the PGA ate them... everyone...)
>
> 5. Listening for the umpteenth time that Interesting Times, Event
> Horizons and Data Warps are caused by Faults, Problems, Errors and
> Bugs in Oracle.
>
> 6. When swinging the old lead pipe becomes a daily chore instead of
> The Occasional Fun Thing.
>
> 7. When you feel the need to start making lists like this...
>
>
> --
> Billy
Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 01:12:09 CST