Re: command line vs grid control

Noons wrote:
> On Jul 10, 8:41 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>

>> Oh the shell scripts I could tell you about. <g>
>>
>> The worst or Oracle's code is a magnitude or more better than the worst
>> code I've seen thrown over cubicle walls.

And I could tell you about an Oracle DBA, with 8+ years of experience who manually accomplished the exact same thing in a schema at the largest cellular phone company in the world.

Want to take bets on the number of DBAs currently running production databases that are not in archive log mode? The number that think an export is a backup? The number that think tuning means cache-hit ratios? The number still separating tables and indexes into separate tablespaces "for performance?"

Of course anyone and everyone can point to examples of bad stuff happening. I've no doubt everyone here has a horror story or ten. But you might also reread some of the questions/issues posted here in this group. Would you be willing to run some of these people's shell scripts? I know I wouldn't.

This may come as a shock to you but from what you've posted here over the years ... you hardly qualify as the average DBA. You should not assume others know what you know and are as good as you are: They are not.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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