Happy doomsday to everybody!
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:53:56 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2012.12.20.20.53.45_at_gmail.com>
As you know, the world will end tomorrow, on 12/21/2012
Did you schedule an extra backup? Do you have standby databases for all
of your important databases? Are the most important tapes in the asteroid
proof cabinets? Did you update your password list and put it in the same
asteroid proof cabinet as the tapes? End of the world is likely to cause
Internet and cell phone disruptions, as well as power outages. Somebody
needs to be able to log into the production database if I am blown to
smithereens.
Hopefully, all your standby databases are running in active Data Guard
mode. A direct asteroid or comet impact is likely to corrupt some blocks
in your databases. Earthquakes and super-volcano eruptions can also do
that. Active data guard can recover your database blocks automatically,
so you don't have to worry about it.
I hope that I will not be very busy doing recovery this weekend. Monday
is the Christmas Eve and hope that I will enjoy it, without having to
babysit the on-going DB recovery.
-- Mladen Gogala The Oracle Whisperer http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Thu Dec 20 2012 - 21:53:56 CET