Re: Dataguard switchover

From: Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:14:42 +0100
Message-ID: <713d96d10904030714w262982c8ld5a896d1954772a6_at_mail.gmail.com>

I agree entirely but what can I do. I've told my boss of my concerns I just hope it never happens!

2009/4/3 Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com>

> Why teach a trained monkey to do the job. Because upper management is
> being led to believe that a full time DBA is not really required to manage
> their databases. That the databases and their accessories (grid control as
> a for instance) are so simple that the trained monkey (at a lower pay scale)
> can do the job. Problem is, what does the trained monkey do when he's faced
> with a plain old vt100 terminal & sqlplus only to fix things?
>
>
> *Dick Goulet***
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> *To:* Jack van Zanen
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> *Subject:* Re: Dataguard switchover
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> because I am the only dba and not being from Krypton I sleep get ill and
> take holidays!
>
> 2009/4/3 Jack van Zanen <jack_at_vanzanen.com>
>
>> Answers have been given
>>
>> Begs the question though.....WHY ask a trained monkey to do the
>> switchover. This looks to me like it should be scripted or a DBA task not a
>> manual job for an operator who may make a typo while connected as SYS, and
>> than what?
>>
>>
>> Brgds
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>>
>> Jack
>>
>> 2009/4/2 Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>
>>
>>> Has anyone written a guide for a non dba to do a manual dataguard
>>> switchover on Linux Oracle 11g?
>>>
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>> Jack van Zanen
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