Re: Programmer forced into DBA Role, Help?

From: Peter Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:31:29 -0800
Message-ID: <36DC1261.EEDD186E@us.oracle.com>

Douglas

It's good to see you realize you know enough to be dangerous!

Two places to start looking:

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!).
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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"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

Received on Tue Mar 02 1999 - 10:31:29 CST