"Post, Ethan" wrote:
>
> Or perhaps this...
>
> Write a program that will manually allocate extents to each object until you
> run out of space, then capture error and number of extents and write to a
> flat file using UTL_FILE package. Then export object, truncate table and
> import to recover the space you allocated during each test. Then use SQL
> loader to bring the data from the flat file into the database and write
> queries against the X$ constructs to see if you are approaching too many
> extents. Use a minimum of 5 .sh scripts and 8 control files to accomplish
> this task. From what I have seen this will qualify you for numerous jobs as
> a Senior Oracle DBA.
>
> DISLAIMER: THE ABOVE WAS A JOKE BUT DOES REFLECT THE TYPES OF THINGS I HAVE
> SEEN IN THE PAST.
>
> :)
Reminds me of something which I have seen which basically was a spool to
a file of a SELECT * on the various views in the dictionary, wrapped
into a shell script and followed by a number of greps ...
Why use SELECT when you can grep with regular expressions ?
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