Space Management
The two most common reasons data warehousing DBAs get paged at night is either that ETL jobs miss their “must start by” or “must complete by” time due to data volumes and job interdependencies, or ETL jobs cause Oracle errors in the range of ORA-1650 to ORA-1654 (“Unable to extend extent” for rollback segments, undo segments, temp segments, tables and indexes). There's not much that can be done about the first issue, but any competent DBA should definitely be in charge of his or her own destiny regarding the second issue. Proper space management and planning are both prudent and advisable.
For example, the screen snapshot in Figure 9-1 shows an example of a spreadsheet depicting a database's actual and projected growth over nearly ...
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