October 18, 2013 at 7:49 am
rodjkidd (10/18/2013)
As Jack said I finally tracked him down...Felt a bit like the Colin Hay (ex Men at Work) song "Looking For Jack" !!
Great guy, it was a pleasure to meet you Jack. Next time warn everyone if you have shaved the beard or grown it back! 🙂
Also as a bonus on the Bucket List, met Jim Murphy on the way to the NASCAR hall of fame. So that was cool. Nice guy as well! E aren't we all on this thread?
Gail - See Denny, I did not.
Last day, it's gone so quickly...
Rodders...
Saw you reference Men at Work and thought the song you were going for was "It's a Mistake" and I thought "Well that's just mean"
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
October 18, 2013 at 8:03 am
Stefan Krzywicki (10/18/2013)
rodjkidd (10/18/2013)
As Jack said I finally tracked him down...Felt a bit like the Colin Hay (ex Men at Work) song "Looking For Jack" !!
Great guy, it was a pleasure to meet you Jack. Next time warn everyone if you have shaved the beard or grown it back! 🙂
Also as a bonus on the Bucket List, met Jim Murphy on the way to the NASCAR hall of fame. So that was cool. Nice guy as well! E aren't we all on this thread?
Gail - See Denny, I did not.
Last day, it's gone so quickly...
Rodders...
Saw you reference Men at Work and thought the song you were going for was "It's a Mistake" and I thought "Well that's just mean"
Yes that would be mean! And gives the rest of us some insight into how you brain works! 😀
Rodders...
October 18, 2013 at 8:20 am
Koen, you are awesome. 🙂
Koen Verbeeck (10/18/2013)
hoseam (10/18/2013)
I don't have a backupSorry to hear that.
Let this be an incentive to implement a backup plan.
:hehe:
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
October 18, 2013 at 8:22 am
rodjkidd (10/18/2013)
Stefan Krzywicki (10/18/2013)
rodjkidd (10/18/2013)
As Jack said I finally tracked him down...Felt a bit like the Colin Hay (ex Men at Work) song "Looking For Jack" !!
Great guy, it was a pleasure to meet you Jack. Next time warn everyone if you have shaved the beard or grown it back! 🙂
Also as a bonus on the Bucket List, met Jim Murphy on the way to the NASCAR hall of fame. So that was cool. Nice guy as well! E aren't we all on this thread?
Gail - See Denny, I did not.
Last day, it's gone so quickly...
Rodders...
Saw you reference Men at Work and thought the song you were going for was "It's a Mistake" and I thought "Well that's just mean"
Yes that would be mean! And gives the rest of us some insight into how you brain works! 😀
Rodders...
A big part of how my brain works is finding song links for just about anything and if it doesn't find one, it starts making a song up.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
October 18, 2013 at 9:09 am
Gads it takes a long time for an Oracle patch to apply...
I probably could've just installed a new, updated instance by now...
October 18, 2013 at 9:25 am
jasona.work (10/18/2013)
Gads it takes a long time for an Oracle patch to apply...I probably could've just installed a new, updated instance by now...
Maybe that's a test to run. Can you do the equivalent of detach, uninstall, reinstall, attach?
October 18, 2013 at 9:43 am
jasona.work (10/18/2013)
Gads it takes a long time for an Oracle patch to apply...I probably could've just installed a new, updated instance by now...
Oracle patches have always taken a very, very long time to run. The Oracle installer certainly doesn't make the process any better. I remember them taking hours sometimes when you have large databases. Unfortunately, you have to move from disbelief and thinking you're doing something wrong into acceptance.
October 18, 2013 at 10:13 am
Ed Wagner (10/18/2013)
jasona.work (10/18/2013)
Gads it takes a long time for an Oracle patch to apply...I probably could've just installed a new, updated instance by now...
Oracle patches have always taken a very, very long time to run. The Oracle installer certainly doesn't make the process any better. I remember them taking hours sometimes when you have large databases. Unfortunately, you have to move from disbelief and thinking you're doing something wrong into acceptance.
Yeah, I know, just wanted to complain...
It's actually the second time I've had to load the Oracle Quarterlies, which should give you an idea how long we've been without an Oracle DBA if *I'm* getting pressed into service as one! 😉
Now if only I got the Oracle DBA pay on top of the MS SQL DBA pay, I might complain less...
:w00t:
October 18, 2013 at 10:15 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/18/2013)
jasona.work (10/18/2013)
Gads it takes a long time for an Oracle patch to apply...I probably could've just installed a new, updated instance by now...
Maybe that's a test to run. Can you do the equivalent of detach, uninstall, reinstall, attach?
Sure, if I could figure out how to do that in Oracle!
😉
Thankfully, the patch process completed, which means I get to leave on time (1:00pm! Yay!) so I can join the wife and a friend for lunch (Yay!) before tomorrow night installing the current round of MS OS updates on my production servers (boo!)
October 18, 2013 at 7:39 pm
Greg Edwards-268690 (10/18/2013)
jasona.work (10/18/2013)
You know, people may complain about the hassles of installing SPs and CUs and updating the OS of their SQL servers, but that's nothing compared to doing Oracle Quarterly patches...Having to rename DLLs that the Oracle service doesn't let go of, even when you've stopped the DB, having to actually STOP the various Oracle services, because the patch utility is a batch file making sure you're in the right directory, having to remember to run your CMD Prompt as Administrator...
I realize a dedicated, determined Oracle admin could probably put together a Powershell or Python script to do all of this automatically, but give me an EXE / MSI / MSU to double-click and click Next a few times any day...
Written while backing up an Oracle system before applying the current quarterly patches to a QA environment...
Just curious, maybe a business could be started.
How much do you think you would pay for such an exe? 😀
Actually I worked for a company a few years back that was developing a tool for this. I think they called it RapidPatch or something like that. Google on that or Rapid Solutions and you may find them (in Thailand). Not sure how far they've gotten with it or whether it is intended for the db or for Oracle EBS though.
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.
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October 18, 2013 at 11:33 pm
rodjkidd (10/18/2013)
As Jack said I finally tracked him down...
All you had to do was look for a little hobbit running around under your legs. In all seriousness, Jack is awesome.
rodjkidd (10/18/2013)
Also as a bonus on the Bucket List, met Jim Murphy on the way to the NASCAR hall of fame. So that was cool. Nice guy as well! E aren't we all on this thread?
Hey thanks man. You are quite cool yourself. Got me in a t-shirt pose for your wall of shame where you post other suckers willing to wear the shirt. You'll have to post a pic.
After walking up to Rod and company, they said "hey, I know you." I literally responded with "I doubt that." Hahahaha. What are the odds with so many people there since I just blindly walked up after seeing his First Timer flag so I tried to make this wandering stranger feel welcome? I just didn't recognize y'all.
"Do you post on The Thread?" Me: "I used too!"
Jim Murphy
http://www.sqlwatchmen.com
@SQLMurph
October 20, 2013 at 1:32 pm
GilaMonster (10/18/2013)
Koen, you are awesome. 🙂Koen Verbeeck (10/18/2013)
hoseam (10/18/2013)
I don't have a backupSorry to hear that.
Let this be an incentive to implement a backup plan.
:hehe:
I know I know 🙂
But when do most people adapt some best practices?
After they messed up (one time too many).
Need an answer? No, you need a question
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October 20, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Koen Verbeeck (10/20/2013)
GilaMonster (10/18/2013)
Koen, you are awesome. 🙂Koen Verbeeck (10/18/2013)
hoseam (10/18/2013)
I don't have a backupSorry to hear that.
Let this be an incentive to implement a backup plan.
:hehe:
I know I know 🙂
But when do most people adapt some best practices?
After they messed up (one time too many).
... hopefully still keeping their job.
October 20, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Revenant (10/20/2013)
Koen Verbeeck (10/20/2013)
GilaMonster (10/18/2013)
Koen, you are awesome. 🙂Koen Verbeeck (10/18/2013)
hoseam (10/18/2013)
I don't have a backupSorry to hear that.
Let this be an incentive to implement a backup plan.
:hehe:
I know I know 🙂
But when do most people adapt some best practices?
After they messed up (one time too many).
... hopefully still keeping their job.
Or hopefully not keeping it, depending on what "one time too many" means.
I don't have a problem with people screwing up. I do have a problem with people repeating the same screw-up multiple times, unless the screw-up is so trivial that it can do no harm, even when repeated continually (in which case, it isn't really a screw-up, is it?).
Tom
October 21, 2013 at 10:04 am
Thanks, Koen, and thanks for the tip on the photo. I've finally caught up on the thread after PASS Summit and got a chance to change my Twitter photo.
Jason Wolfkill
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