Oracle DBA Training

Oracle DBA Training

We want to give some new updates about DBA University's Oracle DBA Training course.  Since the beginning of 2013, we are offering it now in the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) conveniently from 8 am Central Time until 12:30 pm Central Time (with a 30 min break). Each online training schedule runs for a period of 7 weekends for a total of approximately 60 hours with lots of remote lab practice.  The industry average for IT trainings is 40 hours in the USA whereas our course is for more than 60 hours.

Course Highlights

1) 60 hours course

2) Training will be on Oracle 11g R2 and Oracle 12c R1.

3) Students Video Reviews 

3) Saturday, Sunday - 8 am Central Time to 12:30 pm Central Time (with a 30 min break)

4) DBA University Oracle DBA Tutorial will be provided.

5) Click here for a FREE DEMO session  (Name and Email only)

6) Click here to register for the online training course

Lab work

1) Each student will get a remote lab computer to practice the course work.  

2) The training will be on Oracle 11g R2 and 12c R1 version with Linux 64 bit as the operating system.

3) 16 hours Remote LAB access on Saturday, Sunday

4) 5 hours Remote LAB access on weekdays.

Links and Resources

1) Click here to download Oracle DBA course brochure

2) Click here for a FREE DEMO session  (Name and Email only)

3) Click here to register for the online training course

Microsoft SQL Server DBA Training

DBA University is excited to announce MS SQL Server DBA Training online course. We are starting on July 20th 2013. Each training schedule runs for a period of 6 weeks on Saturday and Sunday from 7 pm Eastern time to 11:30 pm Eastern Time with a 30 min break.

Course Highlights

1) 50 hours course

2) Training will be on the latest MS SQL Server 2012 version.

3) Saturday, Sunday - 7 pm Eastern Time to 11:30 pm Eastern Time (with a 30 min break)

4) DBA University Course Material will be provided.

5) Click here for a FREE DEMO session  (Name and Email only)

6) Click here to register for the online training course

Lab work

1) Each student will get a remote lab computer to practice the course work.  

2) The training will be on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 version with Windows Server 2008 R2 as the operating system.

3) 10 hours Remote LAB access on Saturday, Sunday

4) 5 hours Remote LAB access on weekdays

Links and Resources

1) Download MS SQL Server 2012 DBA course brochure

2) Click here for a FREE DEMO session  (Name and Email only)

3) Click here to register for the online training course

How to start an Oracle database at boot time

Introduction

A database administrator must always work towards simplicity and automation in daily activities.  Though a server restart is not considered a 'daily activity', one should automate startup of Oracle databases whenever possible if the host server is using a Unix or Linux platform.  This will avoid the system administrator working on the server maintenance activity to page or call the Oracle DBA for a manual startup of Oracle databases.

Oracle solution

Oracle already offers solutions to achieve such an automatic startup of the database. Available methods include creating a script under the init.d initialization directory or the 11g R2 Oracle Restart feature. In this post, I will discuss about a simpler alternative to these methods.

Detailed steps

a) Create a root owned shell script in a system directory such as /usr/bin with the below contents. Let it be named as oracle_startup_boot.sh. The /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 is the $ORACLE_HOME environment variable value.  

su  -  oracle  /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/dbstart   /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1

b) Update /etc/oratab with the databases that must be started when the above dbstart command is executed. For example, let FINDB and HRDB be the two databases.

FINDB:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1:Y

HRDB:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1:Y

c) Edit the root operating system user's crontab and add the below line

@reboot  /usr/bin/oracle_startup_boot.sh

d) Provide execute privileges for root operating system user to the  /usr/bin/oracle_startup_boot.sh file

e) Optionally, update the lsnrctl command in the  /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/dbstart program with any customer listener name that need to be started automatically along with the above two databases.

Conclusion

The 11g R2 Oracle Restart feature is worth considering if one is already having 11g R2 databases.  However, if one has databases from several Oracle versions on the same server and wants a quicker solution , then the @reboot command is a worthy alternative.  A automatic restart solution is a must have in organizations having hundreds of Oracle databases, especially on development and test servers, where such restarts are frequently needed.