Author: Julien Lamarche

Pythian has been a rapidly expanding company over the ten months I’ve been here. About a dozen new employees have come on during that time, making the total 40. I have a few observations on habits and qualities new DBAs can bring to their jobs.

One of our clients found a bug with dbms_scheduler: it logs a job as successful when a ORA-01403 is thrown. Oracle was pointing us to unpublished bug #4552696 . They said a patch is available for 11 and offered to backport the patch.

Doug Burns posted photos with his new teammates on his blog, and I felt they deserved a mention here too.

IT programs only teach you the programming and software architecture perspective. In DBA work, even when scripting, you have to consider the data as a tool. I’ll show you what I mean.