Re: Becoming ORACLE DBA

From: Mark A <nobody_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 10:39:54 -0600
Message-ID: <E7Sdnby_qevGXlvfRVn-tQ@comcast.com>

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1120313961.367292_at_yasure...
>
> Required ... no!
> But required for competence ... yes!
>
> Perhaps in the DB2 world when they complain that something is slow you
> guys and gals just start dinking around until some random act fixes
> things. We prefer someone that knows top, sar, iostat, vmstat, etc.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan

It didn't take me 3 years working as a UNIX admin to figure out top, sar, iostat, vmstat, etc. But as stated in other posts, I usually work at places that have a separate UNIX admin staff for the heavy UNIX lifting.

BTW, I find those UNIX tools almost useless for serious database tuning since most database I/O is asynchronous (in a well-tuned system). Received on Sat Jul 02 2005 - 11:39:54 CDT