What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
the oratab file
and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
instance that needs
to come up.

On Jun 13, 12:40 pm, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
> What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> the oratab file
> and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> instance that needs
> to come up.

Did you ask *why* he did that?

Kind regards,

Herta

On Jun 13, 7:01 am, herta <herta.vandeney...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 12:40 pm, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> > What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> > the oratab file
> > and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> > instance that needs
> > to come up.
>
> Did you ask *why* he did that?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta

He says that the oratab file is no longer used by oracle 10

On Jun 13, 12:40 pm, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
> What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> the oratab file
> and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> instance that needs
> to come up.

Time to kick his ass.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Jun 13, 6:20 am, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 7:01 am, herta <herta.vandeney...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 13, 12:40 pm, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> > > What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> > > the oratab file
> > > and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> > > instance that needs
> > > to come up.
>
> > Did you ask *why* he did that?
>
> > Kind regards,
>
> > Herta
>
> He says that the oratab file is no longer used by oracle 10

Time to find a qualified DBA and show this one the door.


David Fitzjarrell

karu51 wrote:
> What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> the oratab file
> and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> instance that needs
> to come up.

Very little.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

On 13 Jun, 11:40, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
> What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> the oratab file
> and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> instance that needs
> to come up.

You may as well ask your DBA if he's reinvented the wheel recently,
too

HTH

-g

On Jun 13, 6:40 am, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
> What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> the oratab file
> and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> instance that needs
> to come up.

Perhaps this person is smart enough to realize that there are
potentially big problems in the approach where you automatically start
oracle up when a server re-boots by looking at the oratab entries.

On Jun 13, 3:40 am, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
> What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> the oratab file
> and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> instance that needs
> to come up.

It depends.

jg
--
@home.com is bogus.
http://www.depend.com/products/how_to_use.asp

On Jun 13, 1:50 pm, joel garry <joel-ga...@home.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 3:40 am, karu51 <k...@babcock.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> > What does this Group think of a DBA that comments out the entries in
> > the oratab file
> > and writes his own startup script that embeds the names of each
> > instance that needs
> > to come up.
>
> It depends.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.http://www.depend.com/products/how_to_use.asp

How exactly Joel do you find the links and quotes that often accompany
your postings.

The one above is kind of cruel but still funny with my guesstimates of
the average age ( not getting any younger here myself ) of many of the
people that respond here frequently!