Oracle-L: RE: RE: a PL/SQL design question.

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:29:21 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0051611D.20021210062921@fatcity.com>

Dear Richard,

These are a bunch of developers who think they are "GOD" (at-least their managers think so) ... we have learned that it is better to let them try and fail themselves rather than trying to explain them the right thing ... it works all the time. It is their database, and they own it, so if it has any problems, they suffer ... and learn.

Lather .. rinse .. repeat.

Yes, they could have done something better, but sometimes they need output in a fraction of a second ... because when "bottomline" or "clock" gets updated during a live broadcast, having 1 to 1.5 second delay is unacceptable... Most other times these developers are good ... they fight if their queries take longer than 500ms ... they try to tune and tune the code to make it right. It is only "sometimes" something like this happens.

Plus we never could reliably run dbms_jobs on 9012 on AIX 433 .. all dba related actions rely on "cron" ..
Raj

Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc.
Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:13 AM To: Jamadagni, Rajendra; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

DBMS jobs are good things for stuff that can occur totally within the database
and on a scheduled basis only. It sounds, RAJ, like your developers made a real
mess. What would have been a better idea would have been to have the trigger
update a table that the job on a scheduled basis checked for what it needed to
do.

Dick Goulet

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