RE: all time worst question I have been ever asked as a DBA

From: Amaral, Rui <Rui.Amaral_at_tdsecurities.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:10:59 -0400
Message-ID: <B38858412AFF9F4098331DE549A77449062CC6F7D2_at_EX7T2-SV05.TDBFG.COM>

Or:

We don't need to backup the database. We can rebuild our 3 terabyte db with our text files!

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Nilo Segura Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:08 PM
To: kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: all time worst question I have been ever asked as a DBA

I got a phone call from somebody who could not print a document, he did it because in the login banner there was a message saying something like "call this number for oracle database problems".

printer problems = oracle database problems (a well known axiom...)

yeah... right :)
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com<mailto:kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com>> wrote: A good friend of mine used to say, "If it has a 'D' in it, it's a database issue." When I was an DEC Rdb DBA, I used to get paged for issues even whey they had determined it didn't touch a database...just in case it was a database issue.

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