Re: [HUMOUR] What kind of DBA are you?

  • From: Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:31:30 -0500

I actually worked with several OE-DBAs like this. This one I got off server
fault. This is a call Sys Admins ite since they rank respondants. The Oracle
questions are kind of basic (since its a sys admin site)

http://serverfault.com/questions/100475/is-my-new-oracle-dba-talking-sense/100579#100579




On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Demetrius Harper <harperdk@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  I Love the OE-DBA---  38 Luns Classic
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> *From:* Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>
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> *To:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Fri, January 8, 2010 7:10:43 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [HUMOUR] What kind of DBA are you?
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> I have a few more
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> Drama Queen DBA: Every little thing is a big deal and requires a tantrum.
> They have to look at and review everything. This makes them a bottleneck for
> everyone else. If they see something they may not like they send an email
> and CC 20 people to demands answers to their questions.
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> Over Engineer DBA: You have a small database that is rarely used. The DBA
> demands 38 LUNs be set up so he can personally put every last file on a
> differnet lun for optimal performance. Takes him weeks to do all this. The
> performance increase is negligible, but it is so complex, the DBA now
> appears to be the expert.
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> Everything has to be done in the database DBA: There is 1 DBA and 5
> developers. The DBA is the only one he considers qualified to write pl/sql.
> They insist on every line of SQL in the database and only he can do it. This
> type of DBA is related to #1 and #2 by blood lines that go back 1,000 years.
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