RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

Realistically if you have only true DBA responsibilities you do not need access to the physical box. TAR your install CD up and FTP it. Surely we can all find 700mb out there on a drive somewhere. Or, NFS mount it across the network. As for maintenance on the box our sysadmins do that stuff not me. And, if the network is down or the box is badly damaged what good does it to even have a database up? I mean, sure you can say, "It's not the database, look at my 'ps -ef' command in UNIX!" But this doesn't really fix the problem if users can't actually access it!

I would personally give up the demand that I have physical access to the box in exchange for a secure ISDN connection to do work from home with. Working from home in your PJs beats the heck out of freezing your tail off in some computer room.

--Michael

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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 2:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Don't get me wrong. I think you should have access to the servers but its all in how you word things. Steven made it sound like he could not do a thing without access to the server room when in fact its rare that you need access to the server room. When you paint a realistic picture to your management then you tend to be listened to more. Claiming you can't do your job without it is not realistic.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

At 12:25 PM 9/25/2001, Kimberly Smith wrote:
>Steven, although you need all that you say we need you
>sure don't need access to the server room for that. At
>the very least there is telnet, which is what I use from
>home. Then there are things like Exceed and Xterms, which
>is what I use at work. By no means do you need access
>to the server itself to do the "day to day" stuff.

OK so i can do 95-98% of what i need to do without access to the servers. [i use SSH myself.] but those few time i need access it's because something is badly wrong with either the server or the network, and those time i really need the access. so i prefer to keep my access rather tan give it up. they are after all , *my* databases, and i'm the one responsible.

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Bill "Shrek" Thater              ORACLE DBA
Telergy,Inc.                   thaterw_at_telergy.net
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