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Re: Oracle DBA Year One

www.oracledba.in — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:29:22 -0000

i like this

Re: Secrets of SQL Server Consultant

Dr Who — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:06:46 -0000

What's the single best 'secret' I have as a long time, highly regarded and professional SQL Server consultant? 'Likeability' - the ability for other people
to like me. I may remind them of their fat uncle or dad who looked out for
them when they were young, perhaps an older brother type feel. Technically,
my job is now 'easy' as these things go. I'm really not heavily challenged by
anything technical, but I am ALWAYS challenged by the many many relationships
I have to keep fresh and vital and alive. It takes ages to build up your cred - it takes but one or two really bad f'ups to destroy it.

Re: My O Face

Dr Who — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:34:00 -0000

Why is Oracle kicking Microsoft's ass? You said it yourself - you installed it on RHL. And that is the one area that Microsoft will likely never be able to win over. I can run Oracle on *anything*. Microsoft, not so much. I love SQL Server - it's been very good to me for my career, but in my role as an architect supporting DB2, SQL Server and Oracle, I've learned to see the strengths and weaknesses in all of these platforms. Fortunately for me, I've learned or am learning all three platforms. The one area where Microsoft wins hands down is on cost - Oracle is a HUGELY expensive piece of software, Microsoft, not so much.

Re: Oracle DBA Year One

Dr. Who — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:29:57 -0000

I just went through the ORA training at ORA U - I, too, have been slurping the Microsquat koolaid for years, having come from, well, Microsoft. The one notable thing about ORA is that even 11g is an incredibly complex piece of engineering, and you can't be an idiot and expect to be a DBA. Yeah, flashback or 'fast recovery' is way cool, as is ASM, but again, all of this coolness comes at a very high price. Many of the 'SQL Server dba's I've run into over the last 13 years (yes, I do go back that far) are what I call 'accidental dbas' (dba's? dbas'???). You CAN NOT be an accidental dba with Oracle. It's simply far too complicated.

Re: Oracle DBA Year One

John Sansom — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:09:43 -0000

A very interesting read Jason!

I actually learned my database craft many years past on Oracle. From the sound of things the playing field has changed quite a bit since then.

I would love to dive back into Oracle but I just don't think I could specialise in both technologies to the extent which I now have with SQL Server.

I would be interested to know how you juggle both and if you ever get knowledge/features muddled between the two?

Cheers!

Re: Long time no see

cleveridea — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:17:54 -0000

In preparation for the cage match, I'm going to put on my ORACLENERD tshirt and remove my nipple rings.

Re: Long time no see

cleveridea — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:17:44 -0000

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Re: Long time no see

Mike Walsh — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:44:32 -0000

Welcome Back! The daughters is reason enough for me. Looking forward to reading your posts, especially the ones about why you are migrating towards the dark side more now :-)

Re: Long time no see

Ryan Adams — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:53:13 -0000

Glad to see you back online. Hopefully we'll keep running into each other at Starbucks before the NTSSUG meetings.

Re: Is 80/20 a 90’s Estimate?

sunanda — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:34:01 -0000

Hi, can you provide us with some references for this 80-20 rule?

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

BrentO — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:20:11 -0000

Who showed you our confidential roadmap?!?!!!?!?

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

Tony Bain — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:24:14 -0000

Hey I have been logging GUID’s into a table 24x7 for the last 3 years. Laugh you might, but you’ll come with your check book open like all the rest when the world runs out.

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

Jason Massie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:18:25 -0000

I met with the Quest guys today. You should make app to store adhoc sql in a middle tier db table and parameterizes it. Wait... what about storing vm's in file stream?

Re: Imagine a 3500 Page Book…

BrentO — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:20:16 -0000

It's all part of my master plan to take over the SQL talents of the world and launch a giant MLM scheme to sell triggers and cursors.

Re: Life

Rob Boek — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:33:07 -0000

Looks like fun!

Re: What is Professional Development?

way0utwest — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:43:05 -0000

I'd also include ways to increase your specific career knowledge. So resources, ideas, ways to learn more about SQL Server (or development) for DBAs. For lawyers, how to better debate or write a brief, for doctors, new medicines, etc.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Chuck Lathrope — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:20:53 -0000

Understood, but if you have the cache and want to use it, it seems you have to leave the enable adv performance UNchecked and enable write caching checked based on references sited by Matt and myself.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Jason Massie — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:14:01 -0000

Chuck - That is why I have the bold warning, do not do this until you have a battery backed cache. Most enterprise level servers(HP for sure) will send traps if the battery juice is running out or the battery backing is unavailable for some reason.

Also, if you do not have a write bottleneck then you may still want to leave it off.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Chuck Lathrope — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:53:07 -0000

It seems based on this and another thread I found http://forums.storagereview... that we should not enable the Advanced Performance as it will remove the flush cache option to improve speed, but during power failure override the option you really want on a database server? Does anyone have a test box that they can power off to do a test?

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Matt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:00:13 -0000

Note: "Enable Enhanced Performance" doesn't do anything but re-introduce an old bug:
http://207.46.16.252/en-us/magazine/2007.04.windowsconfidential.aspx

It's likely that SQL Server 2000 and up do not rely on this bug at all.

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Jason Massie — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:46:40 -0000

Not presently but I was planning on writing a script that will generate a report of which servers this needs to fixed on. As far as changing, it is probably a reg key but once for each disk but it doesn't need to be turned on for all disks.

It is on my list but several things just got bumped up in priority ahead of it...

Re: Another Overlooked Windows Setting for the DBA

Rob Boek — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:55:16 -0000

Do you know of a way to script this?

Re: Professional Development: Internet Image

K. Brian Kelley — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:52 -0000

Neat story about what your grandfather had overcome in his life.

Re: Professional Development: Internet Image

Paul Randal — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:07:08 -0000

I have to let you know the DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS only doesn't deal with puss because we ran out of time for SQL Server 2005 - otherwise I'd have put it in. Sorry. And I like LOTR. :-)

Re: Can you be too Thorough?

chrisleonard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:36:06 -0000

I like this! Can you post the code? :oP