How Not To Be A DBA

I came across this interesting presentation by Rachel Carmichael given at a
recent New York Oracle User Group, entitled
“How Not To Be A DBA – The
Top Twenty Mistakes”. It’s a light-hearted look at what *not* to do when
you’re a DBA, including:

• “Don’t Backup If You’re On RAID5”,
• “Index Every Column On Every Table”,
• “Always Increase The Shared Pool To Solve Performance Problems”
• “Grant Everyone Connect, Resource and DBA”, and
• “Don’t Script Or Document Anything”.