Documentation, success factor? Time consume? Tools, methods to use?

Hello,
Some questions in my mind, Please share your experience and knowledge. This is not a very technical question, it's a discussion.
Experts, database team leaders, Consultants, managers, CTO, CEO can share their thoughts....
- How many of you believe in documentation?
- Is documentation a success factor or is it just a waste of time in some cases?
- How much time should a database team spend on documentation per work day?
- How to "invite" database team members to use, write, maintain the documentation; which "smart" methods can be used?
- How can I know the documentation done is up to date? Should I just "trust" in my team members OR which "smarts" methods can be used to verify it?
- Which methods, tools can be used of a good, complete documentation of the database libray, logical structure, procedures, jobs, backup / recovery, installation, migrations, etc ... ?
Best regards,

Experts, database team leaders, Consultants, managers, CTO, CEO can share their thoughts....I am non of them...
- How many of you believe in documentation? 100% (Because its the number i.e. 100% which is representation of completeness)
- Is documentation a success factor or is it just a waste of time in some cases?It depends. It is waste of time only, if reader is either not having any approach to solve the problem or he/she is not doing practice as per instructions in docs.
- How much time should a database team spend on documentation per work day?Rather than opening facebook, chat room, playing games etc. (of course they are also meant for a mean), but one should think that i am an Oracle DBA; so my first task in free hour is to read docs.
- How to "invite" database team members to use, write, maintain the documentation; which "smart" methods can be used? Some sort of motivation in term of money and/or appraisals.
- How can I know the documentation done is up to date? Should I just "trust" in my team members OR which "smarts" methods can be used to verify it?It depends. First you can ask for proper documentation, check it and make necessary correction (if any required). As far as matter of concern of trust, yes you can but not blindly.
- Which methods, tools can be used of a good, complete documentation of the database libray, logical structure, procedures, jobs, backup / recovery, installation, migrations, etc ... ?As far as Oracle concern, i think there is no such great need to have documentation, because database dictionary is having all sort of metadata; but yes for DBA concern, you have to properly outlined the major in and outs of business, person, technical resources with higher administration that any DBA has to write procedure in this way, these are backup strategies, rules, Guideline for Installation, How to perform migration etc. If any DBA find fail to follow these "Working Manuals" then they might be punished by any mean.
I am not sure, how much all these are helpful, but i expressed my opinion/views.
Regards
Girish Sharma

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De: William Poon[SMTP:[email protected]]
Date d'envoi: vendredi 10 juillet 1998 16:58
A: 'Jean-Paul GABRIELLI'
Cc: John Apps; Forte -- Development
Objet: RE: [REQ] Assisted management tools/methods for plans hierarchies(imp/exports, supplier plans management & external APIs control)
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Apps
Sent: Friday, July 03, 1998 6:40 AM
To: Forte -- Development
Subject: FW: [REQ] Assisted management
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Since recent updates of iOS, I have noticed when using my iPad that my apps close automatically when I have to leave the room or am otherwise distracted for a few minutes. It is sometimes time consuming to sign back in and get back to the task where i left off. Is there a setting I can change so it will keep the apps open until I am ready to close them? Thanks for your help.

Did you have this problem before Restoring you iPad?
If you did then did you restore with a backup. You may have reinstalled something that is conflicting in this back up
If not then sounds like either something went array with the clean install or a hardware issue.
I know it's long winded but have you tired a clean install then downloading the apps again?
PJRS

When I open 2 or more browsers of Firefox, click to open and close email it pops up the First Firefox browser since I have verrsion 6 as of yesterday. And some times the tool bar dosen't appear or have to refresh it.

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When I open 2 or more browsers of Firefox, click to open and close email it pops up the First Firefox browser since I have verrsion 6 as of yesterday. And some times the tool bar dosen't appear or have to refresh it.

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When I open 2 or more browsers of Firefox, click to open and close email it pops up the First Firefox browser since I have verrsion 6 as of yesterday. And some times the tool bar dosen't appear or have to refresh it.

How to find the Names of Most costly Views or Most Time consuming views

Hi All,
I had a database consisting of almost 200 views,as a part of Optimization process i want to find out the most costlier views.How to do that.Actually i want the names of the VIEWS,so that i can optimize that.Can any one help me out?
I had one more doubt in our Database a view is created like view A( which is created by joining several tables).so do i need to add index on this view separately or does it take the index of the tables which i joined? And in our Database i had created
a VIEW which is derived from other views(the Joining objects are views not tables),so while i select recoreds from this views which is derived from other views it is taking a lot of time.Is tehre any problem with that?

Please avoid such double post spread over several forums:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bae4042a-10b8-4d12-aa46-88a05ea37a76/how-to-find-the-names-of-most-costly-views-or-most-time-consuming-views?forum=sqldataaccess
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