RE: Oracle DBA future
- From: "John Hallas" <john.hallas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:36:30 -0000
I ask a lot of what-if questions. At some point I want them to say,
"I'd stop and call for back-up." or "I'd call Oracle and open a TAR."
My standard response to an interview production crisis/rman restore
type question is
a) Go for a cup of coffee - always make them sit up and take notice
b) Log a tar - just in case
c) Involve whoever is in the office - i.e sanity check what you are
doing
Many years I thought I knew what I was doing and I dived in and made a
right mess of things by deleting my current controlfiles. Well before
RMAN was in place I might add. There is more benefit in being cautious
and being right than being quick and being wrong. Saying that you still
need to know what to do but double-checking never does any harm.
I also recall interviewing a DBA contractor who said something like "I
have made my mistakes at other people's expense, that is why you are
hiring me". Afterwards my manager thought he was arrogant but I could
see the value in what he said and we took him on to everybody's
satisfaction.
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