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		<title>Becoming an Oracle DBA part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 14:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I discussed how I believed a framework or apprenticeship should be created to promote the career path of DBA to talented individuals. In that post I described a four step path from 1st level IT support through to the first DBA role. I&#8217;m attempting to cover step 3-4, i.e. an already [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=257&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sybase to Oracle #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 15:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my initial post I thought it might be worth fleshing out some of the steps I went through in bitesize chunks. This is in no way attempting to replace the already superb documents out there (I&#8217;ll provide links to them at the end of the post). It&#8217;s more of a list of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=235&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sybase to Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around a year ago Sybase lost it&#8217;s status as a Strategic RDBMS Platform within my organisation. This left Oracle and MSSQL as the alternatives going forward. As with many financial organisations in the banking sector there is an abundance of Sybase within the company. I&#8217;m working on a project at the moment to convert a Sybase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=185&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the whole stepping down as Team Lead thing, I&#8217;ve been moved to a different business area. So I now support Data IT as opposed to FI Derivatives. That probably doesn&#8217;t mean an awful lot to most people. To put it plainer, I used to support systems that were based around settlement and confirmation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=223&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just for fun &#8211; weekends til the end of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone asked me to create a list of dates for all Saturdays and Sundays until the end of the year. Just for fun I asked one of the other dbas to have a go at it too. Here&#8217;s the different answers we came up with along with the attached explain plans&#8230; My first attempt after [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=205&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming an Oracle DBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked a seemingly simple question the other day by a member of my family&#8230; &#8216;What do I do?&#8217; A member of my family is looking for a career change at the age of 30-ish. He&#8217;s been working in mental health care but would like to move on to something completely different. We got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=199&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whilst the cat&#8217;s away&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://oakesgr.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/whilst-the-cats-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife&#8217;s gone to see her family for a couple of weeks so I have the freedom of the manor. What to do with all this spare time that&#8217;s suddenly on my hands? I could catch up on all that technical reading I&#8217;ve been putting off, or I could reinstall 11g on my laptop and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=196&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG Management and Infrastructure SIG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oakesgr.wordpress.com/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended my first UKOUG event on Tuesday.  Martin Widlake chairs this SIG and does a fantastic job of making everyone (including newcomers like myself) feel very welcome. In fact once I&#8217;d got over my usual shrinking violet impression, I found everyone to be welcoming and particularly knowledgeable. This SIG contains a broad range of presentations, and doesn&#8217;t delve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=192&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learnt &#8230; again</title>
		<link>http://oakesgr.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/lessons-learnt-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just got off of a pretty intense weekend. I had three application releases to support and eight 10.2.0.4 patch upgrades on production dbs and their standbys to perform.  Half of those upgrades were on databases that were also involved in one of the releases. So added complexity around timings, additional backups etc. so that we could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=177&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be or not to be &#8230; a manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 18 months I&#8217;ve been a performing a dual role, DBA by day and team leader and general crime fighting superhero by night.  Or something like that. What I&#8217;ve found is that if you spend between 50 and 70% of your time performing management type tasks (appraisals, resource management etc.) your technical skills [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oakesgr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8670779&amp;post=165&amp;subd=oakesgr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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