Re: How to apply archive logs on an cold backup

"Stuart J Moore" <stuart_moore_bc667_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1f41035e.0409020222.69ff2fd7_at_posting.google.com...
> [snipped]
> >
> > > > I will let the readers make the
> > > > judgment.
> > >
> > > I hope they will.
> > >
> > > And as they do so, I am sure they will note that I have not been alone
in
> > > criticising the content of your post.
> > >
> >
> > Reasonable critics are welcome.
>
> I am a reader and I have just performed a quick poll with all the DBAs
> in my office
>
> Q: In response to the question "How to apply archive logs on an cold
> backup", who gave the most suitable answer?
>
> The results are
> Howard J Rogers 100%
> Bob Jones 0%
>
> I think that is conclusive.
> The actual votes collected are (HJR 1, BJ 0).
>
> I have been a DBA for a while now, and I have a complaint to make.
> There is too much misinformation posted especially about backup and
> recovery.
>
> For me it has always been a part of my skill set that I have been
> unhappy with, until recently. When I was learning the DBA trade, my
> manager was a great believer that knowledge was power, and by gosh he
> didn't want to lose that power! Consequently we were forbidden from
> practising anything where we could learn more than our "mentor", this
> included database recovery.
>
> A couple of companies, copious reading and a few local installations
> of Oracle later (plus a couple of recoveries), things are improving.
>
> However, the real change in my fortune is due to the clear and concise
> posts about backups and recovery I have read on this group, and those
> of one poster in particular.
>
> A lot of posts about recovery are wrong, perhaps not in a certain
> scenario, but when
> you are trying to get to grips with the concepts these posts knock you
> off track. "Why is he doing that type recovery?" back to the books.
> "That doesn't make sense. But he is posting on
> comp.databases.oracle.server so he MUST know what he is talking
> about!" This is why it is important to get the details correct, at
> any level. There is no point in posting an answer, and then having to
> qualify it in layer posts "Well if it was that, and you had lost this,
> and you had deleted that, and it was the third Thursday of the month,
> and your cat had just coughed up a fur ball, then my post WOULD have
> been correct, so I'm right and you're wrong!"
>
> We who are learning have to trust what is written. And in Howard J
> Rogers we have someone who cuts through the carp of backup and
> recovery. Explains in clear and concise ways why we do a recovery in a
> certain way, what files we need, the steps we need to follow and where
> other posters are incorrect. However, the ego level of DBAs is often
> so high that to be told your post is incorrect is tantamount to a
> declaration of war.
>
> I would like to thank Howard for helping me to revisit backup and
> recovery with a new and clear head.
>
> Regards
> Stuart

Boy, I thought I have read enough junk today. Received on Thu Sep 02 2004 - 22:17:46 CDT