Monthly Archives: August 2012
Life of an Oracle DBA: Big Data restore
Over the years my opinion of what big data is has changed. Way back in the VAX days, a 1G database was not only big data it was fricken huge data. Now words like gig, tara, and peta are thrown … Continue reading
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Life of a Oracle DBA. What is choking my Oracle database server?
The week was dominated by turning. The database server was pegged at 100% CPU all week. I have tuned the offending queries to within an inch of their lives. The customer wants to know, why is this happening? And I’m … Continue reading
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Life of an Oracle DBA: Grumps, dataguard, upgrades and tuning oh my
There are very few things that will get my dander up. One is waisting my time; the other is “Not My Job.” Last week I experienced both; it took a bit but the person who told me it was not … Continue reading
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The life of an Oracle DBA
So you want to be an Oracle DBA? What does a DBA do? What does my week look like? Frequently my wife asks me what my days are like and just what do I do at work. Well, I’m going … Continue reading
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Encrypt those backups
April 2005 Ameratrade loses a backup tape containing information on 200,000 customers. February 2005 Bank of America loses backup tapes containing information on 1.2 million charge cards. September 2011, SAIC loses backup tapes of 4.9 Million members of the military … Continue reading
Security in the Cloud. Install #1
There are a number of different vendors providing cloud services. You can buy space and processing power from vendors like IBM, or Amazon or many other service providers. In the interest of full disclosure, I use cloud services all the … Continue reading