RE: Opinion on change control for DBA scripts
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:06:19 +0000
Message-ID: <1E24812FBE5611419EFAFC488D7CCDD1186D89FA_at_G6W2491.americas.hpqcorp.net>
I would not put my personal or DBA group scripts in source control. We have a couple of script locations on our UNIX servers. The System Administrators run a file backup task that copies changed files to tape on pretty much a daily basis. However to get a file restored you have to realize it is missing and the restore process is slow. So I have copied all my personal scripts to my PC as well as to a separate location on another server. Every so often I run a remote copy command to copy everything in my master over to the copy.
Scripts which are necessary to the business or upon which management depends would be ran via our job scheduling system (CA Uni-center) and as such would be part of our official job schedule and would have a copy stored into sccs.
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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Sandra Becker
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:35 PM
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Subject: Opinion on change control for DBA scripts
One of our VP's yelled at me this morning and slammed my door when he left my office. He was angry because I didn't check my scripts into the change control they use for the application code so wasn't able to give him information no exec has asked me for in my entire tenure with the company. I was collecting space usage stats to enable me to track for analysis and planning. A few months I lost all my scripts because IT decided it wasn't important to back them up. Hadn't gotten around to recreating this particular script since I was the only person using the information. He also asked for information on some disk space that isn't related to any of my databases and I don't have access to. That's when he yelled at me to get him what I could and slammed my door. So what do most DBAs do? Do you check your scripts into source control? have copies? don't worry about it? I have begun keeping copies on a thumb drive since the second time I lost everything.
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