Lightweight Oracle DBA Tools
Sometimes basic things like installing the latest Oracle instantclient on the PCs of all of your developers can take considerable time. I typically setup a dedicated DBA Portal website wherever I work and then write up instructions for repetitive things like these. It’s all about — do it once and forget it. Here’s the copy [...]
MAA recommends to enable Flashback Database on the primary prior to FailOver: Enable Flashback Database to reinstate failed production databases after a failover operation has completed. Flashback Database provides a second very significant function, enabling fast point in time recovery if needed. See: MAA_WP_10gR2_SwitchoverFailoverBestPractices.pdf Enabling Flashback Database involves setting up flash recovery area and setting [...]
“Data Guard — it’s real it’s Oracle, you know what you’ve got!” said Joe Meeks (Director of High Availability Product Management at Oracle) in his closing statement during the Live Webcast presentation titled “Maximize Availability with Oracle Database 11g” held today. The focus of this presentation was on “Active Data Guard Option” of Oracle 11g. [...]
Vitaliy Mogilevskiy - Solving ORACLE problems since 1996.
What you will find here is what works for me day in day out - 24x7x365 - simple ORACLE DBA Tools written using components that are available on every Unix platform with an ORACLE database -- sqlplus and KSH.
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