Re: Programmer forced into DBA Role, Help?

I agree with the Oracle Education Backup & Recovery class being excellent (from a students perspective). I also have found the Oracle Press Books to be very helpful. The Oracle manuals are still my reference 'bible', but the Oracle Press books are a better read.

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Linda Montgomery
Database Analyst
James Madison University
montgolh_at_jmu.edu

Peter Sharman wrote:

> Douglas
>
> It's good to see you realize you know enough to be dangerous!
>
> Two places to start looking:
>
> 1. If you can afford it, both in terms of time and money, get some training.
> In the areas you're looking at, there is a backup and recovery workshop run by
> Oracle Education that is (IMHO) the best course Oracle has ever written - very
> true to life, particularly the third day where the instructor blows away your
> database in a variety of ways, and you have to determine what's wrong and fix
> it. (It's enjoyable to teach too - must appeal to the bastard in me!).
>
> 2. Start looking at some of the documentation that's available out there.
> Obviously, the Oracle manuals cover this, but also try looking at the other
> books available. For example, Rama Velpuri has a book out in the Oracle Press
> series (available through bookshops or Oracle itself) called Oracle Backup and
> Recovery Handbook. This includes scripts (unfortunately in hard copy only last
> time I looked) for Unix and VMS.
>
> HTH.
>
> Pete
>
> Douglas Whitacre wrote:
>
> > I have been an application programmer for close to the last 10 years
> > revolving around Oracle. Now, I'm being moved into more of a DBA role. I
> > know enough to be dangerous, but the hot topics I need help with are:
> > Backup & Restore, and Archiving and Recovery strategies. If anyone out
> > there can point me in the direction of tools and/or methodologies I can look
> > at in these areas it would be greatly appreciated. Can you email
> > suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Pete
>
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> Peter Sharman Email: psharman_at_us.oracle.com
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>
> "Controlling application developers is like herding cats."
> Kevin Loney, ORACLE DBA Handbook
> "Oh no it's not! It's much harder than that!"
> Bruce Pihlamae, long term ORACLE DBA
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Received on Tue Mar 02 1999 - 12:32:58 CST