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So you've had a mass DBA exodus too?
We're currently at 50% (3/6) of the Oracle DBA staffing levels we had a year
ago and have finally gotten permission to add one more person. Hmm, if
anyone is looking for a job in Jersey City near the PATH train with lots of
bureaucracy and paperwork but occasional interesting stuff feel free to send
my your resume. We need a DB2 DBA too.
Oh, and my great-grandboss knows my name but his office is only about 15' from my cubicle so I don't know if that counts.
Jay Miller
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:47 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Yes, and she is the VP. (hesitating) That's probably because every other DBA has left, so all of the sudden I am becoming "popular" around here.
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:32 PM
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President of the company? Of the U.S.A.?
You would only see him once every ten years... if that.
Does the manager three levels above you know you by name?
: )
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Acting Head
Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des Maritimes, MPO
E-Mail: boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca <mailto:boivinp_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Spence [SMTP:cspence_at_FuelSpot.com]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:37 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: How do you audit a DBA?
I think the president should be the only one in charge, he just
tells the
dba what to do, i.e., alter the freelists on this table, add some
extents
here, put some fluff there.
"Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes,
that way
when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes."
Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Phone: (978) 322-5744
Fax: (707) 885-2275
Fuelspot
73 Princeton Street
North, Chelmsford 01863
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:50 AM
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"The point is, you only need one, single trusted person to hold the
administrator account (someone from your audit firm, for example)
and almost
everything can be done by sub-administrators who only have the
precise
permissions they need and no more. In theory, anyway :0)"
There's that "single point of failure" again! so... the auditor is
more
trusted than the DBA?
Who audits the auditor?
>From: "Guy Hammond" <guy.hammond_at_avt.co.uk>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: How do you audit a DBA?
>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 01:45:06 -0800
>
>There is an administrator account, but individual users can
configure
>access control lists on their files (right-click, properties,
security)
>that would prevent the administrator from reading them. The only
way
>that an administrator could then read them would be to "take
ownership"
>first. Unlike Unix, ownership of a file is taken rather than given,
so
>even if an Administrator read a confidential file, the OS would not
let
>then erase traces of having done so. If you wanted to steal a file,
you
>could obviously back it up to tape (if you have the Backup Operator
>role) restore it to another system, take ownership there and read
it
>(unless it was encrypted of course) but there's only so much an OS
can
>do about physical security.
>
>The point is, you only need one, single trusted person to hold the
>administrator account (someone from your audit firm, for example)
and
>almost everything can be done by sub-administrators who only have
the
>precise permissions they need and no more. In theory, anyway :0)
>
>g
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:41 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>but doesn't there have to be ONE account/role in NT that can assign
all
>the others? how else could you set up a role or continue to set
them
>up?
>
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