OK, I finished my top 10 do's and don'ts... I'll put my list in another post for anyone to comment on.
THEN I looked at your list Rachel. I had some of yours on mine, but I actually disagreed with you about autoextend. I've had this argument with others before, and here is my POV: 1. In development and test, I agree there is no need for autoextend. 2. In a production environment, I say that all tablespaces are autoextend. All of them. I allow them to grow to a reasonable size, and monitor for them to extend. How do I monitor them? Glad you asked. I set the tablespace to extend such that there is never more than 1% free space available in the tablespace. I have my monitoring software keep an eye out for tablespaces at 19% empty, 10% empty and 5% empty. So, if I get an autoextend situation, I am notified by my monitoring software, but the application can continue. So, what if there is some run-away process? Well, thats where maxsize comes in. I will only let the datafiles grow so large. I usually give them enough room for what I would consider to be 3 months worth of normal growth. Of course, the very best thing to do is to allocate space *before* it's needed, but there are times when space estimations come up short, and rather than have a production problem I'd rather allow the datafiles to grow by some reasonable size. Of course, resumable space management in Oracle9i is a big helper here too!!! Robert Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (It's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -----Original Message----- Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The article is available on the NYOUG website (www.nyoug.org) under the Technical Journal archives --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rachel: where can we find that article ? can u post the url ? > > -----Original Message----- > Carmichael > Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:24 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > for the don'ts you could just read my paper "how not to be a DBA, the > top 20 mistakes" which I gave at IOUG last year > > > --- Freeman Robert - IL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm collecting up a list of the top 10 do's and don'ts for DBA's > > for a little article I'm doing. Anyone want to provide their list > or > > part of > > it? > > > > RF > > > > Robert G. 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