There have been studies done by various researchers and companies on the causes of data loss. Generally, these lists include hardware failure, human error, software corruption, and computer viruses. The intention of this article is to provide you a guide and thoughts on many situations you might encounter. Since everything depends on your unique system and circumstance, this is just a springboard for you to investigate your own system and solutions.

This article is part three of a six-part series: “The Changing Role of the Modern DBA,” developed as a collaborative effort between IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly.

In part two of this three-part series, learn about sharding in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 - the architecture and components, deployment, and management of the sharding configuration.

In the first article in this series, we reviewed in depth the architecture of Oracle Sharding and the various technical components. This article purely focuses on prerequisites and the initial deployment steps.
Next, we are going to configure the catalog database. After that, we will deploy two shards in the primary site and two shards in the standby site using the Active Data Guard option.

This article is part two of a six-part series by editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly on 'The Changing Role of the Modern DBA'.

By Michael Messina, Senior Managing Consultant, and Sridhar Avantsa, Director, Oracle Infrastructure Services, Rolta AdvizeX, Cloud Managed Services If you are in any IT role, you are probably part of teams and/or initiatives that want to move your organization to the cloud in whole or in part. We were a member of a large team at Rolta-AdvizeX that…

Enterprise IT responsibilities are growing the number of applications, and the amount of data being managed is continuing to grow. The release of the ‘2018 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey: Behind Every Cloud Transformation, There’s Well-Functioning IT’ attempts to examine IT support groups from the IOUG, Quest and OAUG user communities. These communities are made up…

This article is part one of a six-part series developed as a collaborative effort between the editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly on 'The Changing Role of the Modern DBA'.