die Seilerwerks

Oh, the alliteration! I submit to you, dear reader, this. It is a pastebin of the transcript from #oracle earlier today. For some reason, user “otay” suddenly decided to get vile with me (I’m “rizzo”). He even went so far as to fabricate quotes from me. My favorite is:

One giveaway, however, is that I’m a native English speaker. So, when I insult someone, I don’t normally do it in the same broken English that our Italian friend otay uses. If you read the full log, you’ll see how my #wilug compatriot superdug convinced him to do a “smegcheck” and reboot his machine. He hasn’t been seen since!

This is an example of how not to get help in #oracle. spinal4ever just doesn’t get it, and I can only excuse so much on the broken English. Many F-bombs were dropped. I’m ashamed I offered what tidbits that I did.

Yesterday in #oracle, hali pointed out the existance of the v$rman_backup_job_details view, and has since written a nice example post about using it to monitor the I/O done by every RMAN job you’ve done.

As I just shared in #oracle, it really helps to have a handy bookmark to the Oracle documentation library for your release. Oracle really does a good job with its documentation and making it easily available and searchable.

[10:09] <rizzo> ok the ts_free script I have shows total bytes at 871,713,865,728
[10:10] <rizzo> yeah one tablespace alone is 223gb
[10:25] -->| gehdan (n=gehdan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.de) has joined #oracle
[10:43] <teite> rizzo: ok thats quite big ;)
[10:43] <rizzo> yeah it's a pain in the ass
[10:55] <gehdan> what are you guys talking about?
[10:55] <gehdan> sforget i asked, don't really wanna know :)