Re: DBAs and System Managers - War and Peace?

Richard G Ramirez wrote:
>
> I recently had a taste of this war between DBAs and system managers.
>
> I started consulting for a company and suggested to the system
> manager that we should mirror the log files to two or more disks
> and possibly separate some data files. Right now the entire
> database is on a single disk.
>
> He jumped at this and swore that he would never do it. He further
> indicated that my predecessor wanted the same thing (surprise!)
> and that we were crazy.

Who is your system administrator and what reasons did he give you for not doing this? Did you give him any technical reasons for your request or did he give you any technical reasons?

-- 
Neil Greene
Senior Oracle DBA / Unix System Administrator
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