Re: Need an Oracle Check List

2003-01-21 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
There is a checklist available in http://www.oradb.net/book/dbachecklist.pdf HTH Venkat -- On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:39:34 KENNETH JANUSZ wrote: >Dennis: > >Thanks very much for the suggestions. They will help me a lot. I have been >working on the position for about two months now. It has eve

RE: Need an Oracle Check List

2003-01-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ken - 14 miles, you dawg! I'm jealous. Here I am humping 30 miles across the major metro area. Seriously, learn as much as you can from the departing person, because even if you have access to that DBA in the future, it is amazing how fast they can forget details. Robert - I think you have excelle

Re: Need an Oracle Check List

2003-01-20 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Dennis: Thanks very much for the suggestions. They will help me a lot. I have been working on the position for about two months now. It has everything I want - Oracle DBA, manufacturing, large company, and only 14 miles from my home. I will be working for a small IT company but be on-site at t

RE: Need an Oracle Check List

2003-01-20 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
My big thing would be backup and recovery and making sure I know how they are doing it. Everything else you can ferret out over time if need be, but if that database craters on day 2 and it takes you forever to recover it, you are just not going to look good to management. I've seen a number of di

RE: Need an Oracle Check List

2003-01-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ken - Be sure to ask for the system password ;-) Congratulations on the position. If I'm recalling correctly from your previous posts, this is VERY welcome. The best suggestion is one I used myself. At some point you'll sit down and go over the systems. That will take about 30-minutes to 1 hour. Yo

Need an Oracle Check List

2003-01-19 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
It appears that I will be taking over an Oracle production DBA position in about a week from another DBA.  I would like suggestions as to specifically I should be looking for from this person.  Something like a check list.  Items that I need to specifically look at.   Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM