Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-12!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Are Oracle DBAs trivialized? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:09:24 -0700 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1113863591.20710@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3dYoELKCkkYCFw1C@jimsmith.demon.co.uk> <1113757703.156481@yasure> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 28 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:240715 Jim Smith wrote: > 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? I agree so lets examine your statements. RMAN doesn't cost money. If you have it you have already paid for it. And one should probably point out that when management approves the purchase of a software package, say Oracle 10g, they have approved purchasing the entire package ... they didn't say well we'll take it all but not interMedia. What risk? I think you introduce a far higher degree of risk by not using RMAN and I think there is a huge amount of documentation that supports this that your Oracle SE would be happy to provide to you. There is a risk in doing something ... that I will grant. But there is also a risk in doing nothing. To (excuse me for the word) pretend there is no risk involved in doing nothing is methinks a mistake. At least that is my opinion and I'm sticking with it. ;-) -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)