Re: My 10 Commandments of Database Administration...
- From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: FREEMANR@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:39:26 +0200
What do you want me to do: suggest a candidate for replacement or are we
going to add extra commandments?
There you go:
12: Thou shalt not use GUI's
13: Thou shalt script your commandline commands.
Best regards,
Carel-Jan Engel
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 23:17, Freeman Robert - IL wrote:
> My 10 commandments of Database administration ... Anyone want to add to
> this?
>
> 1. Thou shalt backup thy database.
> 2. Thou shalt test thy database backup, often.
> 3. Thou shalt remove as many single points of failure as possible.
> 4. Thou shalt not assume anything.
> 5. Thou shalt not use version x.0.0 of anything.
> 6. Thou shalt not assume a 99.999% buffer hit ratio is a good thing.
> 7. Thou shalt not add hardware, when fixing the application code/SQL will
> fix the problem.
> 8. Thou shalt not allow the user to have DBA privilges.
> 9. Thou shall document everything.
> 10. Thou shalt monitor ORACLE-L, read with abandon and imerse thyself in all
> that is Oracle.
>
> and my personal 11th commandment
>
> 11. Thou shalt use RMAN, and buy all of Robert Freemans books.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert
>
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