RE: Paging Devices for Oracle DBAs
- From: Joe Cooper <aregularjoe8@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:50:27 -0800 (PST)
All kidding aside (though I admit to smiling wryly at Mladen's 1-900-HOT-DBA
idea!), it seems to speak to the skewed priorities of my country's politicians
and military decision makers when we can find a couple billion dollars for a
new aircraft carrier or nuclear submarine, but we can't squeeze out a few
hundred bucks for a flak jacket for the grunt in the field, or a hundred bucks
(plus airtime) for support personnel like Jerome to get a simple electronic
tool to make them more responsive and productive workers. And I'm sure we
Americans don't hold a monopoly in this realm of skewed priorities!
Well, that's probably too much soapbox for this forum, but I had to say
something.
Joe Cooper
Senior Oracle DBA
<company withheld -- these opinions are my own!>
Whittle Jerome Contr NCI <Jerome.Whittle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We're very low tech here: Users with my home and cell phone number neither of
which are paid for by my employer. I'm thinking about changing over to a 900
number to make some money out of the deal.
Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle@xxxxxxxxxxxx
618-622-4145
-----Original Message-----
From: David Wagoner [SMTP:dwagoner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
I'd like to get some feedback on good communication/paging devices for Oracle
DBAs. I currently have a crappy old Nokia phone that can recieve email, but
it's not very good for this purpose. Are any of you using devices that work
really well for DBA alerts? The Treo and Blackberry units look nice, but they
are expensive. Are they really worth the expense for this function? I used to
carry a clam-shell Motorolla pager that was useful, but too big for comfort. A
phone/pager combination would be ideal I think, if it works well :-).
What are you guys using that you like/don't like?
Best regards,
David B. Wagoner
Database Administrator
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