Hi,
For many years (10 to be exact of my almost 29 years of career) I have been saying that Oracle DBAs should be always the most proactive as possible (“As per my very well know session – Tips and Best Practices for DBAs”). The main issue when implementing an effective proactive methodology is that due to the lack of incidents you end up forgetting most of your firefighter skills, so to help you to practice these skills I have developed “CrashSimulator”. CrashSimulator is FREE and able to provide you with almost 50 different scenarios for CDB and Non-CDB Databases. Please follow the link at the end of this page to receive the executable of the program for Linux.
Note: CrashSimulator Documentation is available here
This is basically my gift to the Oracle Community around the world on my anniversary of 10 years of working with OTN. It started in early 2008 when for most of the year I was the top OTN forum contributor in the world, and thanks to that I had the privilege of becoming an Oracle ACE and a few months later, an Oracle ACE Director. During these 10 years, I am proud to have achieved some very important personal goals, as per example:
- Becoming the first Latino American to participate in the International Conference Circuit as a speaker
- Becoming the first Latino American to participate in the Oracle University Celebrity Seminars program
- The first professional in the world to be promoted from ACE status to ACE Director (Double ACE)
- The first Latin American Database professional to receive an Oracle Excellence Award and Oracle Magazine Editor’s Choice Award
- Wrote my first book – Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide reviewed by many great friends including Tom Kyte, Robert Freeman, and many more)
- Created and Organized the OTN Tour Latino America and APAC (Becoming the father of the OTN Tours), and supported other OTN tour creation.
- Created and Organized the APAC Webinar Tour
- Helped with the creation of many Oracle User Groups around the World
- Founded LAOUC and APACOUC
- Been for many years president of LAOUC (retired), CLOUG (Current), NZOUG (Current), APACOUC (Current), IAOUG (Current)
- Organized the first Oracle User Conference in Latino America (CLOUG OTN Day in April 2009 opened the door to the User Group events in the region), plus over 62 other conferences around the world.
- Spoke at over 140 Conferences around the world, giving over 300 sessions
It is great to lock back and see that my efforts opened the doors to many other Oracle professionals around the world, especially in Latino America.
Hope you enjoy CrashSimulator, and please help us to share this wonderful free tool for Oracle DBA with all your peers and friends. Please also follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn to be informed with regards to new releases of this tool (A new version would be released every 45 days).
Note: This page had already over 5k visits in the first 96 hours and CrashSimulator was downloaded close to 1,000 times during this period. Please help to share this tool with all peers and Oracle communities around the world!
Note: CrashSimulator Documentation is available here
Please click on the screenshots above to check it out. Also, please enter any suggestions for this tool in the comments section of this page!
Note: You will receive an email with a zip file that contains CrashSimulator. Some antivirus does not like a zip file as an attachment so check if blocked or if the email ends up in your junk folder.