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laurentschneider
laurentschneider
What Oracle features have made being a DBA easier/harder?
Nov 22 2007, 2:45 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 22 2007, 2:45 PM EST
What about UNDO tablespace and cost-based-optimiser/statistics? 5  out of 8 found this valuable. Do you?    
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oraclebase
oraclebase
1. RE: What Oracle features have made being a DBA easier/harder?
Nov 23 2007, 4:56 AM EST | Post edited: Nov 23 2007, 4:56 AM EST
Good points. I'm surprised they didn't come up in the talk. I guess everyone is so used to them now they don't stand out. :)

I've added them, but marked them as unrated, since they weren't part of the discussion.

Cheers

Tim... 2  out of 3 found this valuable. Do you?    

oracle11g
2. RE: What Oracle features have made being a DBA easier/harder?
Nov 29 2007, 3:32 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 29 2007, 3:32 PM EST
EASIER:
all of the get out of jail options if used i.e flashback queryversion/datatabase/recyclebin/logminer
performance analysis: awr/addm/ash reports all good stuff

More difficult: rman, rac, who has ever used dbms_online_ref or what ever its called to reorg an object online 1  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?