Tag: Database & Technology

Original Broadcast: January 19, 2017 There's no such thing as a self-driving database. If you expect your Oracle databases to perform consistently at high levels, you need to have a maintenance program. The first part of that program is an assessment. Presenter Megan Elphingstone, Senior Oracle DBA for Datavail will show the audience how Datavail…

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Hear from Jonathan Gennick about how to start writing and choose a topic, audience, and venue.

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Learn about how to decide what to measure and why during database benchmarking and benchmarks and benchmarking tools to help you do it.

Learn about what to audit and why during database auditing.

To recap where Part 1 of this article series ended, we finished using Database Workload Capture to collect two different workloads from an Oracle 11.2.0.3 database — one OLTP workload, and one DSS workload — and saved the resulting shadow capture files for eventual transference to a new platform for Database Workload Replay testing and evaluation.

Security is a major topic in today’s world. As I’m writing this, I have just completed another quarterly security audit on critical systems. This doesn’t sound like the traditional job of a DBA, but managing storage, backups, monitoring, patching, performance tuning and, yes, security are all DBA tasks.