Any oracle DBAs here?

psd99 said:
so I managed to get my employers put me on to the
Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop II Release 2 course soon!
Thanks for the suggestion.

super excited, as I am fed up of my current role.

This course is going to be tough and challenge me for sure but I hope to learn lots and attempt this exam!!! I don't think I ever had this much passion for an exam since my Uni days
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Have you done the first workshop?
 
Good Oracle DBAs, with a proper appreciation or understanding of *nix, are a rare commodity. Usually DBA = Don't Bother Asking!!

As above really around courses and things, do the I and II, then RAC admin, and ACFS/ASM admin (there is a separate course as well afaik).

Good luck :)
 
yep it is a very lucrative industry. Just to install oracle itself is very costly in some companies and the costs behind supporting the product are immense.
 
daz.rathbone said:
Good Oracle DBAs, with a proper appreciation or understanding of *nix, are a rare commodity. Usually DBA = Don't Bother Asking!!
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I must be quite lucky then. Our DBA support team are all pretty good tbh, the operational lead being pretty authoritative, there's very little she doesn't know about Oracle DB or can't find out pretty quickly.

We're lucky to have quite a range of Oracle deployments though, from single instance boxes, to various RAC clusters, to Exadata.
 
This may sound a bit daft but I didn't think Oracle release 11 was still supported or at least Oracle had a plan date to drop support from earlier releases. Wouldn't you be better off learning about release 12?
 
Burnsy you may be able to answer me a question if you don't mind

Currently have a windows server running a local oracle db. I want to replace the server with a newer model with a drive attached to a san containing the db. The san has a replication partner to a sister site. I want to know if it's possible to build an identical server at the sister site, and use windows disk clustering set to manual failover. Then, if the primary site or server fails, I can simply fail over to the remote server

Thanks
 
glen8 said:
Burnsy you may be able to answer me a question if you don't mind

Currently have a windows server running a local oracle db. I want to replace the server with a newer model with a drive attached to a san containing the db. The san has a replication partner to a sister site. I want to know if it's possible to build an identical server at the sister site, and use windows disk clustering set to manual failover. Then, if the primary site or server fails, I can simply fail over to the remote server

Thanks
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one question I got it windows and oracle WHY!? that is like mixing water with oil

unix > windows
 
glen8 said:
Burnsy you may be able to answer me a question if you don't mind

Currently have a windows server running a local oracle db. I want to replace the server with a newer model with a drive attached to a san containing the db. The san has a replication partner to a sister site. I want to know if it's possible to build an identical server at the sister site, and use windows disk clustering set to manual failover. Then, if the primary site or server fails, I can simply fail over to the remote server

Thanks
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Firstly, I've never run Oracle DB on Windows. Secondly, I would suggest that disk management is left to ASM rather than using Windows disk clustering.

What you're trying to do is very common, how you're trying to achieve it is a bit off piste. I don't know enough about the specifics of Windows disk clustering to really answer that.
 
so I did the course it was like 1000 pages +

wow it was very difficult but also exciting. I'm going to become best friends with my oracle friends at work and learn from them.

I got virtual box on my laptop, looking to get some type of oracle database setup
any tips?
 
psd99 said:
so I did the course it was like 1000 pages +

wow it was very difficult but also exciting. I'm going to become best friends with my oracle friends at work and learn from them.

I got virtual box on my laptop, looking to get some type of oracle database setup
any tips?
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I would suggest not trying to run Oracle in Windows, just incase that was your plan.
 
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