On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:25:36 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> Woah. That one really is a random grab-bag, eh?
>> 
>> Not really, they're all related to administration of a Windows
>> infrastructure.
> 
> Well, that was the general intention. It looks kind of random on the
> page though. (I guess to somebody who knows what they're talking about,
> it suggests that I have a clue too.)

With regard to your parenthetical - exactly! :-)

>>> Actually *all* I've done is install Oracle, create a blank database,
>>> recover a destroyed database from backup, and regularly backup a
>>> running database. That's basically *it*. But by mumbling something
>>> about "other maintenance" I can make it sound like I did something
>>> significant.
>> 
>> So someone else does the DBA tasks?  In that case, just be prepared to
>> define what "other maintenance" is in case they ask.
> 
> Define "DBA tasks".

User admin (granting access and such), troubleshooting, table layout and 
design (sounds like you probably weren't involved in this last bit, with 
one application that was vendor-supplied).

> Seriously, the database runs itself. I need to set it up initially,
> recover it if it breaks, and back it up periodically. What else is
> there?

Troubleshooting if it breaks comes to mind.

Jim

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