I keep copies of everything, but I have occasionally had to do formal change control (ie, keep a source library, comment all changes, move through test/dev/prod process) on some scripts. Basically I always just copied whatever development was using I had to. But disk space usage records is not a dba job, its a systems job. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > One of our VP's yelled at me this morning and slammed my door when he left > my office. He was angry because I didn't check my scripts into the change > control they use for the application code so wasn't able to give him > information no exec has asked me for in my entire tenure with the company. > I was collecting space usage stats to enable me to track for analysis and > planning. A few months I lost all my scripts because IT decided it wasn't > important to back them up. Hadn't gotten around to recreating this > particular script since I was the only person using the information. He > also asked for information on some disk space that isn't related to any of > my databases and I don't have access to. That's when he yelled at me to > get him what I could and slammed my door. > So what do most DBAs do? Do you check your scripts into source control? > have copies? don't worry about it? I have begun keeping copies on a thumb > drive since the second time I lost everything. > > -- > Sandy > Transzap, Inc. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l