I actually had that one already... thats one of my favs...
Also, there is that customer I had who was certain that they
could take an export, recover it and then apply archived redo
logs for point in time recovery. Their DBA and I had an hour
long argument over this before I finally pulled out my laptop,
and demonstrated the folly of his recovery scheme.
RF
Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration
The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can
take his freedom away from him.
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oh man, mine has to be what is probably Jeremiah's as well:
the myth that Oracle doesn't write to the database files when you are
in hot backup mode
- "Freeman, Robert " <Robert_Freeman_at_csx.com> wrote:
> I'm putting the final touches on my IOUG-A presentation (I got an
> extension
> for those who
> realize that I'm late on it!)... I'm doing Oracle Urban Legends. I've
> got
> several in my presentation but I thought I'd ask here, before I put
> the
> presentation to bed, what your favorite (or the one you find the most
> irritating) Oracle Urban legend was....
>
> RF
>
> Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
> Oracle DBA Technical Lead
> CSX Midtier Database Administration
>
> The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience
> can
> take his freedom away from him.
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