Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:24:26 -0700
Message-ID: <1113844843.918857@yasure>

Jack wrote:

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> From: "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:11 AM
> Subject: Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized?
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>>There is a big difference between buying a new product and paying for
>>licenses ... and using what you've already paid for. Who asks management
>>permission to create an index? Do you get specific permission to use
>>SQL*Loader? How about vi?
>>-- 
>>Daniel A. Morgan
>>University of Washington
>>damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>>(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

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> I thinh RMAN would like to use tape-robot also which is operated an other
> company.
> So you surely need management aproval.
> Or if you are using that near-on-line 4TB-system, you will need also
> somekind aproval/agreements/contracts.
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> Daniel you are living in some kind of fantacy world.
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> Jack

No. But then I don't see any value in backing up to tape and have said so here many times. Compare the cost of disk storage to tape storage and disk wins. Compare the time required to back up to tape versus disk and disk wins. So I am a loss to see why anyone would back up to tape by choice.

But using your 4TB-system as an example. How long does it take you to back up a 4TB system without RMAN? It can be done in minutes (changed blocks) with the right tool. And what is that worth in time and money?

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)

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