Re: Oracle DBA role question

As a DBA, I am always either responsible for, or involved in such decisions.

Capacity planning is also a huge part of my job. Good luck.

gdas_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> Hi,
> I don't really consider myself a DBA. However, for reasons out of my
> control that seems to be the career path I am currently on. I've been
> an Oracle application developer for 7 years and the company I am
> currently with has no DBA and I am it, so I've been learning under fire
> in a test/development environment.
>
> Our project is about 60% complete and we have begun preliminary
> planning of our production environment (which is still at least 6
> months away).
>
> Some things I have been tasked with performing research on:
>
> Hardware purchase decisions: Should we deploy oracle on NT, Linux,
> Unix and if Unix, (Sun, HP, AIX)...How much processing power we will
> need in terms of servers/cpus? Should we deploy Oracle Parallel Server?
> What type of storage will we need? How many disks? Should ee purchase
> a storage solution like Legato or EMC? Do we implement RAID-0, RAID-1,
> RAID-5 etc, etc...
>
> The above questions are just hypothetical, please do not respond to
> them. The real question is: Are these types of things that the average
> DBA would be able to resolve or are they more commonly handled by
> bringing in consultants? My experience with databases is pretty
> extensive, unfortunately it stops at the database level and I don't
> have much experience in the physical/hardware level. I will definitely
> need to bring in external help to assist with these issues, but I am
> just curious to know from some seasoned DBAs if this is or should be a
> standard base of knowledge that most *good* DBAs have. (Do the oracle
> certification exams touch on these types of questions?)
>
> Sorry for the open-ended question and thanks for any input.
> Regards,
> Gavin
>
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Received on Tue Sep 12 2000 - 15:50:52 CDT