RE: My 10 Commandments of Database Administration...

From: Mark Strickland <mstrickland_at_drugstore.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:32:48 -0700
Message-ID: <63A70CA32CEF354892F78EADB13D329702C57DD3@seaems005c>

Perhaps...Thou shalt befriend the sys admins quickly, liquor 'em up at every opportunity, tolerate their personality disorders without complaint (even if it takes weekly botox injections to hide how you REALLY feel), don't take their condescensions personally...no, I'm not bitter.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Carel-Jan Engel Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:39 PM To: FREEMANR_at_tusc.com
Cc: 'Oracle-L (E-mail) '
Subject: 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

=3D=3D=3D
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) =3D=3D=3D

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

> My 10 commandments of Database administration ... Anyone want to add
to
> this?

>=20


> 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.

>=20

> and my personal 11th commandment

>=20

> 11. Thou shalt use RMAN, and buy all of Robert Freemans books.

>=20

> Cheers,

>=20

> Robert

>=20

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