Re: My 10 Commandments of Database Administration...

What do you want me to do: suggest a candidate for replacement or are we going to add extra commandments?
There you go:

1. Thou shalt not use GUI's
2. Thou shalt script your commandline commands.

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 23:17, Freeman Robert - IL wrote:

> My 10 commandments of Database administration ... Anyone want to add to
> this?
>
> 1. Thou shalt backup thy database.
> 2. Thou shalt test thy database backup, often.
> 3. Thou shalt remove as many single points of failure as possible.
> 4. Thou shalt not assume anything.
> 5. Thou shalt not use version x.0.0 of anything.
> 6. Thou shalt not assume a 99.999% buffer hit ratio is a good thing.
> 7. Thou shalt not add hardware, when fixing the application code/SQL will
> fix the problem.
> 8. Thou shalt not allow the user to have DBA privilges.
> 9. Thou shall document everything.
> 10. Thou shalt monitor ORACLE-L, read with abandon and imerse thyself in all
> that is Oracle.
>
> and my personal 11th commandment
>
> 11. Thou shalt use RMAN, and buy all of Robert Freemans books.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
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