The constant evolution of IT has, among other things, affected the role of a database administrator (DBA). Today the DBA is not merely a Database Administrator anymore but is morphing more into the Database Architect role. If you want to become a successful DBA and be more competitive in the market, you should have a…
Category: DBA Career Tips
Some tips to improve your career or help you to find your first DBA job
The Forgotten Link To The Cloud
(Note: This article was also published at Oracle.com – https://blogs.oracle.com/database/the-forgotten-link-to-the-cloud) Last year when presenting a session at Collaborate’17 in Las Vegas regarding Tips and Best Practices for DBAs, I went thru the evolution of the DBA profession and also gave a few tips of how a DBA can improve and be successful on his/her career….
My book: Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide
It was a long journey of hard work and team work that now has finished, as a result you will find my book Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide that I wrote with the help of my good friend Aman Sharma. I would also take this opportunity to recognize the great work done…
Once again, How to Improve your Oracle Career
The main question about the DBA job I hear all the time is: How can I became a successful DBA? Most of the people that I talk to who have difficulties starting out in their DBA career really have an issue trying to absorb the mountainous volumes of information that a DBA needs to know…
Back to Basics – USER MANAGED BACKUPs part 1
In the past few weeks I have received many questions regarding user managed backups, and due to this, I decided to write a little regarding this topic. User managed backups are basically all backups you can make without the use of RMAN and no automatic metadata record of the backup is generated anywhere in the…
NZOUG and LAOUC June and July Webinars (Recording)
Hi All, NZOUG (New Zealand Oracle Users Group) and LAOUC (Latin American Oracle Users Communty) is organizing a serie of webinars to Oracle Community (over 42 Webinars) with the participation of several Oracle Celebrities, and is my desire to share the first 8 webinars recorded with all Oracle Users around the world! Please find bellow all the webinars recorded…
Tip of the Month: How to have super powers using Data Pump!
A lot of people don’t know several powerful functionalities that we have available when using Data Pump (expdp/impdp), most of the people only use these tools to export and import data (in other words, only to move data), and never notice that it can be used for example to help us to do: Data Masking…
DBA Tip of the Month: Jan/2010
I want to start this New Year creating a new session on my blog called “DBA Tip of the month” where I will try to post every month an important tip to help all fellows DBAs to improve their careers. The first topic of this session will be: “Being Proactive with Backup & Recovery”…
DB_ULTRA_SAFE a new GEM for High Availability
DB_ULTRA_SAFE is a new parameter introduced with Oracle 11gR1, and a fantastic new GEM for High Availability, that using Data Guard to configure on both the primary and standby will trigger the most comprehensive data corruption prevention and detection (and repair on 11gR2, see **) tool in the market. ** Starting in Oracle Database 11g Release…
Be a hero, be proactive!
Let start this New Year with a new mentality or a new resolution if you prefer call this way, let stop being reactive and start being proactive. Being proactive will reduce your database administration costs and increase your level of efficiency, and best of all, save your hours of sleep when you are on call….