Sigh .... that was just half the story ...
1. I have to watch the game
2. Make sure the bottomlines are fine (they are fed from our database)
3. Make sure all paying customers get their updates about everything in sports.
4. Keep myself awake through a massive dose of spotlight poisoning ...
5. Make sure the database is in good health.
Of course for 2,3,5 we have automated scripts. Sometimes we put movies on the big screen and display the games in a small pip window.
Today actually I am catching up on my scripts that I am writing for our support department. One of them is a utility that prints all relevant information about a _suspected_ slow session.
Raj
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Raj - Some people I know would think it was great to be paid to watch
football. A lot of them watch it for free. Of course, I suppose you can't
drink beer while you watch, so it probably loses something.
Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Create a new top 5 list ... it is fun
It stinks to be in office on Sat, but it is the start of College Football
season, and I have to _watch_ the games till 11pm tonight, while sitting in
office.
Raj
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how about DBAs with attitude problems? DBAs who refuse developers access to
v$ views. DBAs who refuse to listen to developers. DBAs who who refuse to
explain any decisions to developers. DBAs who are pure production DBAs and
have no knowledge of development and cant even write PL/SQL?
Ive worked with quite a few DBAs who only know a fraction of what they think
they do. Same holds true for developers and managers. So its not one way.
Attitude is harder to overcome than competence. Someone with a good attitude
can learn. Someone who knows and has a bad attitude can be intolerable.
The worst kind though is the jack of all trades who thinks he/she knows
everything about everything yet only knows a little about everything. Those
are the worst.
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Top 5 problems ...
1. Developers (who think they know everything)
2. Developers (who think, others think they know everything)
3. Developers (who think but just not coherently)
4. Developers (who DON'T think at all)
5. Developers (these work for Oracle)
Raj
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Dear All,
I am collecting (Just writing in a book ) of all tough problems , great
issues handled with Oracle RDBMS as a DBA.
Request you kindly send us the Top 5 Problems , Difficult scenarios(the most
tough problems , with solution u did.)you faced so far in your DBA life.
Hope to see many responses to this , atleast by Monday.
Thanks a lot.
Regards
Rajuveera
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