Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized?

In message <1113757703.156481_at_yasure>, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes
>Jim Smith wrote:
>
>>> Apparently, you don't know RMAN, otherwise you wouldn't have made
>>> those comments.
>>> The company still NOT using Rman is not be envied, as Oracle clearly
>>> considers RMAN to be core technology, interweaving it more and more
>>> with the core database product.
>>>
>> I do know RMAN and think all oracle sites should be using it, but
>>that is not the point. The point is that management need to be
>>persuaded that it is worth doing and shouting "this is the best
>>technology" or "vendor x says this is the best technology" is not the
>>way to do it.
>
>As a DBA do you ask management to sanction using LMT rather than DMT? Do
>you ask management if it is Ok to use UNDO rather than RBS? I don't like
>your argument because as a DBA you are supposed to be a subject matter
>expert. If you have tested RMAN and know how to implement it then you
>implement it just as you would any other similar question within your
>realm of expertise.
>

Any activity which costs money and introduces risk above a certain level needs management approval in every business I've ever worked in. Perhaps you have unlimited budgets?

>
>Maybe both Sybrand and I, when reading English, come to the same
>conclusion about the thoughts being communicated. I too read what you
>wrote and assumed you to be paleolithic. You might wish to consider that
>a communication involves more than what you intend. It involves what the
>receiving party believes was communicated.

Reading before you post has never been your strong point.

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