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Happy doomsday to everybody!
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Mladen Gogala
Dec 20, 2012, 3:53:56 PM12/20/12
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As you know, the world will end tomorrow, on 12/21/2012
Did you schedule an extra backup? Do you have standby databases for all
of your important databases? Are the most important tapes in the asteroid
proof cabinets? Did you update your password list and put it in the same
asteroid proof cabinet as the tapes? End of the world is likely to cause
Internet and cell phone disruptions, as well as power outages. Somebody
needs to be able to log into the production database if I am blown to
smithereens.
Hopefully, all your standby databases are running in active Data Guard
mode. A direct asteroid or comet impact is likely to corrupt some blocks
in your databases. Earthquakes and super-volcano eruptions can also do
that. Active data guard can recover your database blocks automatically,
so you don't have to worry about it.
I hope that I will not be very busy doing recovery this weekend. Monday
is the Christmas Eve and hope that I will enjoy it, without having to
babysit the on-going DB recovery.
--
Mladen Gogala
The Oracle Whisperer
http://mgogala.byethost5.com
Did you schedule an extra backup? Do you have standby databases for all
of your important databases? Are the most important tapes in the asteroid
proof cabinets? Did you update your password list and put it in the same
asteroid proof cabinet as the tapes? End of the world is likely to cause
Internet and cell phone disruptions, as well as power outages. Somebody
needs to be able to log into the production database if I am blown to
smithereens.
Hopefully, all your standby databases are running in active Data Guard
mode. A direct asteroid or comet impact is likely to corrupt some blocks
in your databases. Earthquakes and super-volcano eruptions can also do
that. Active data guard can recover your database blocks automatically,
so you don't have to worry about it.
I hope that I will not be very busy doing recovery this weekend. Monday
is the Christmas Eve and hope that I will enjoy it, without having to
babysit the on-going DB recovery.
--
Mladen Gogala
The Oracle Whisperer
http://mgogala.byethost5.com
Matthias Hoys
Dec 20, 2012, 3:58:28 PM12/20/12
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"Mladen Gogala" <gogala...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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them on Mars? ;-)
Matthias
Mladen Gogala
Dec 20, 2012, 4:22:08 PM12/20/12
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:58:28 +0100, Matthias Hoys wrote:
> Why do we need backups when the world will end? Or do you plan to
> restore them on Mars? ;-)
We'll restore the databases in the secret location.
> Why do we need backups when the world will end? Or do you plan to
> restore them on Mars? ;-)
joel garry
Dec 20, 2012, 4:48:05 PM12/20/12
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jg
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@home.com is bogus.
Best headline: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/20/tp-the-end-is-near-at-least-theres-beer/
Peter Schneider
Dec 20, 2012, 5:12:28 PM12/20/12
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Am 20.12.2012 22:48, schrieb joel garry:
> On Dec 20, 1:22 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:58:28 +0100, Matthias Hoys wrote:
>>> Why do we need backups when the world will end? Or do you plan to
>>> restore them on Mars? ;-)
>>
>> We'll restore the databases in the secret location.
>>
>> --
>> Mladen Gogala
>> The Oracle Whispererhttp://mgogala.byethost5.com
>
> It should be fine without all those pesky users.
You mean you DBAs are going to heaven, and your users are going to hell? ;-)
> On Dec 20, 1:22 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:58:28 +0100, Matthias Hoys wrote:
>>> Why do we need backups when the world will end? Or do you plan to
>>> restore them on Mars? ;-)
>>
>> We'll restore the databases in the secret location.
>>
>> --
>> Mladen Gogala
>> The Oracle Whispererhttp://mgogala.byethost5.com
>
> It should be fine without all those pesky users.
Regards
Peter
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Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge,
enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world,
not so the world can see you. -- David McCullough Jr.
Mladen Gogala
Dec 20, 2012, 5:16:28 PM12/20/12
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:12:28 +0100, Peter Schneider wrote:
> You mean you DBAs are going to heaven, and your users are going to hell?
> ;-)
No, everybody is going to hell, only the SLA's are different there.
> You mean you DBAs are going to heaven, and your users are going to hell?
> ;-)
Mladen Gogala
Dec 20, 2012, 5:17:37 PM12/20/12
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:48:05 -0800, joel garry wrote:
> It should be fine without all those pesky users.
If you come to think of that, users are the primary cause of the database
> It should be fine without all those pesky users.
problems. No database without users has ever caused any problems.
John Hurley
Dec 20, 2012, 7:11:45 PM12/20/12
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Mladen:
# I hope that I will not be very busy doing recovery this weekend.
Hows about documented and proven recovery scenarios that one can turn
over to the assistant DBA?
# I hope that I will not be very busy doing recovery this weekend.
Hows about documented and proven recovery scenarios that one can turn
over to the assistant DBA?
Mladen Gogala
Dec 20, 2012, 9:27:39 PM12/20/12
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John Hurley
Dec 21, 2012, 6:20:17 AM12/21/12
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Mladen:
# Yeah, delegating tasks sounds like a sound doomsday strategy.
My junior ... though very sharp ... is known as the "destroyer of
databases" ...
Funny how that works!
You miss one little step in a complicated recovery or do something out
of order or forget to check if you put the system back into log
archive mode ... then ... blammo!
# Yeah, delegating tasks sounds like a sound doomsday strategy.
My junior ... though very sharp ... is known as the "destroyer of
databases" ...
Funny how that works!
You miss one little step in a complicated recovery or do something out
of order or forget to check if you put the system back into log
archive mode ... then ... blammo!
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