Re: Another note on "Best Practices" for DataGuard, Oracle Services and RAC

On the other hand, monkeys are well-known for copying others apparent success and look where it got them.. Guess it pays to think about what you're about to copy and why it works for them. 

Howard Latham wrote:
"If we can only learn from our own mistakes and are prevented from applying the hard lessons learned from other people I guess we would not be communicating using computers today..." 

And we wouldnt be contributing to this list!



2009/6/29 Barun, Vlado <Vlado.Barun@xxxxxxx <mailto:Vlado.Barun@xxxxxxx>>

    I agree that we see a lot of misuse of the term "best practice"
    today, and understandably it has become popular to criticize this
    misuse.

    However, the statement "Copying someone else's apparent success is
    like cheating on a test. " in the link referenced below ignores a
    major reason for progress in the past thousands of years of human
    history.

    If we can only learn from our own mistakes and are prevented from
    applying the hard lessons learned from other people I guess we
    would not be communicating using computers today...


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    Jared Still wrote:
    > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Charles Schultz
    <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>
    > <mailto:sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
    >
    >
    >     I still want to know who defines what the heck "Best Practice"
    >     means anyway. =) I wonder what would happen if I put that
    into all
    >     my documentation from here on out......
    >
    >
    > http://tinyurl.com/best-practices-ktjr
    >
    > If you don't want to read the entire article, skip to the last
    sentence.
    >
    > Jared Still
    > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
    >
    In the same spirit, there is also this:

    http://www.perfdynamics.com/Manifesto/gcaprules.html#tth_sEc1.2

    All the manifesto is a good read, by the way ..

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