RE: OT moment of doubt

I don't think giving another extension to dbf files would help.

An interesting story:

In my last job, the unix "administrator" girl noticed that one of the file systems was 95% full. Searching for large files, she found a lot of 1GB ones named standard01.dbf, standard02.dbf, etc, all owned by oracle. So, she had the brilliant idea to (before asking anyone) compress all of them to free the file system. Not happy enough, she called to blame me for keeping different copies of the same 1GB file not compressed... Less than 30 seconds after HER calling, dozens of develovers calling to ask what was happening to their (for lucky) development environment.  

Have a nice day!

Luis

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Subject: Re: OT moment of doubt

Perhaps it would be safer to give another extension to database files on really important servers to avoid mistakes. Something like *.mpg for instance.

SF

Joe wrote:

>What would you call that moment in time after you do "rm *.dbf" on all
>your database files, where you suddenly panic about whther you're on
>the right server or not?
>
>This happens to me all the time, even after checking, even after 17
>yrs of DBA-ing. Kinda like that feeling you get when your chair starts
>to tip over backwards but you catch yourself.
>
>:P
>
>Joe
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