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senior dbas that forgot that one little detail, but didn't script and
practice it first because they know it all already are probably right up
there as well.
On 9/19/05, Thomas Day <tomday2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> The most important thing that I learned as a newbie DBA was to never "fix"
> a problem in a way that couldn't be undone. Never delete an OS file; always
> rename the file. If everything's still fine after 2 months then consider
> deleting the renamed file.
> I suspect that new DBAs have caused more full recoveries that any other
> source.
> Just my $.02 (US).
>
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Mon Sep 19 2005 - 08:36:49 CDT
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