RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comments

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Munday
Hi, #8 - Don't Be a Normalization Bigot I would have written the above as "Don't denormalise without good reason." To me denormalisation means that you must have a normalised design to begin with, in order to "de-normalise" it. I've seen a lot of designs where the designers have denormalised a

Re: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comments

2003-02-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There are various problems with ASSM that result in lost space - e.g. rollbacks do not reset the btmaps correctly. I also have an example (see the website below for " miscellaneous -> bust bits") which demonstrates that the implementation of ASSM has not been rolled out across all space manageme

RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comments

2003-02-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's just that I've heard comments both pro and con on this list over the last week or so. Some thought it was great, others think it's not. Of course, I hate hard and fast rules anyway because in just about every situation the key words are "it depends" --- Freeman Robert - IL <[EMAIL PROTECTED

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2003-02-24 Thread Thomas Day
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2003-02-24 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
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2003-02-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
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2003-02-24 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
All the hearsay evidence I've seen (including comments attributed to Cary at his HotSOS symposium that I heard second hand last week) leads me to believe that don't #5 is true...I must admit I've not done benchmarking myself... :-) I am, however, ever open minded. RF Robert G. Freeman Technical

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2003-02-24 Thread Tim Gorman
week, and > if everything is still running OK then delete the renamed file. > > > > > Freeman Robert - > IL > @tusc.com> cc: > Sent by: rootSub

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2003-02-24 Thread Jesse, Rich
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2003-02-24 Thread Thomas Day
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2003-02-24 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
5. > > > > > >From: "Stephane Faroult" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my >

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2003-02-24 Thread dist cash
I don't agree with "don't" #1 and #5. From: "Stephane Faroult" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my l

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2003-02-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
>Here is the list of top 10 do's and don't that I >came up with. > >#1 - Do Maintain your Expertise >#2 - Do Use the DBMS_STATS Package to Collect >Statistics >#3 - Do Use Bind Variables >#4 - Do Put your Production Database in ARCHIVELOG >Mode >#5 - Do Use Locally Managed Tablespaces >#6 - Do Moni

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2003-02-23 Thread Chip
#0 - Do understand the business need(s) being met (along with business terminology). Being able to commincate technical information in terms that business decision makers use is critical for the business bottom line (and by extension - your own bottom line). Have Fun :) Freeman Robert - IL wro

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2003-02-23 Thread Tim Gorman
Well. ...this morning my wife looked around and harrumphed, "It must have been a *MAN* who said this is more than 20 inches". :-) Can't imagine what she was referring to... - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 23,

RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comments

2003-02-23 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
20 INCHES of snow WOW!! When I moved up to Chicago in January, I expected at least a little snow boy, weve gotten just little snippets of snow and that's it disappointing. Now I know where it's all gone! RF Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts ww

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2003-02-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
why #5 on the don'ts? I know we've had lots of discussions on this list about it, but I haven't seen anything that made me think "never ever use that" --- Freeman Robert - IL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the list of top 10 do's and don't that I came up with. > > #1 - Do Maintain your Ex

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2003-02-23 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Interesting thoughts Tim! I shall consider changing those! RF Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (It's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, Febr

Re: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comments

2003-02-23 Thread Tim Gorman
Robert, Thanks for sharing this... Sorry to chime in late (we got over 20 inches in the mountains this weekend!), how about "Don't execute any day-to-day SQL manually more than once; plan for reuse by scripting it the first time"? And, with all due respect, how about changing "Do Monitor Your Da

RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comments

2003-02-23 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Here is the list of top 10 do's and don't that I came up with. #1 - Do Maintain your Expertise #2 - Do Use the DBMS_STATS Package to Collect Statistics #3 - Do Use Bind Variables #4 - Do Put your Production Database in ARCHIVELOG Mode #5 - Do Use Locally Managed Tablespaces #6 - Do Monitor Your Da