There has been a serious concern in the market with announcement of Oracle Autonomous database 18c release. Should this be considered as a threat to Oracle DBA’s roles in the market? Let us gather facts available on the Oracle web to understand what exactly this is going to be and focus on skill improvements accordingly. […]
INSTANCE RECOVERY – Oracle database have inherit feature of recovering from instance failures automatically. SMON is the background process which plays a key role in making this possible. Though this is an automatic process that runs after the instance faces a failure, it is very important for every DBA to understand how is it made […]
Oracle Database BUFFER CACHE is one of the core important architectural memory component which holds the copies of data blocks read from datafiles. In my journey of Oracle DBA this memory component played major role in handling Performance Tuning issues. In this Blog, I will demonstrate a case study and analyze the behavior of BUFFER […]
Installing Oracle Database software is one of our regular activities as DBA. There might be supporting notes in each and every project we support, to complete it quicker and more efficiently. One of the pre-requisites we implement is to set up appropriate Kernel parameters at the operating system level on UNIX platforms. But, it would […]
We must have been involved in only technical activities and issues on Oracle database every day, but most of the DBA’s must have a limited or no knowledge on how Oracle charges customers with their license models. Most of us might know that Oracle database is free for learning, testing and for any non-profit applications […]
Your handy scripts are as important as your Oracle DBA profile. We do have lot of scripts, documents, white papers and so on for our reference which are very vital throughout the career. The first source to find answers for any issue or an activity in the environment is your catalog directory where you must […]
Oracle DBA role is perceived to very hectic and demanding in terms of both energy and time. It is well understood that Oracle DBA’s will be mostly working in rotational shifts, overtime and few times are deprived of good sleep. For a moment, let us look at some other profiles/roles which demand similar working styles. […]
