Stephen's Oracle Blog

A thought just crossed my mind. I wonder if there is a market for short (one day) task oriented training for the sort of things that aren't normally covered in general courses. For example I'm aware that there are training courses that mention standby databases and certainly there are courses that cover RMAN, at least for basic backup and recovery. I'm not aware of any that actually take you through setting up a standby database, with a hands on practicum, or that covers things like cloning a database with RMAN. These are things that DBAs might be required to do. Sure you can read up in the documentation and, if you are lucky enough to have the kit, try out but might there be a market for, say, a one day course in how to use RMAN to create a clone database and then convert it to a standby for the database you've cloned? Or something similar with other such tasks ("Your first RAC cluster")? I'm sure that there have been user group and technology day...

Doug Burns recently posted in his journal a list of common search terms that people have used where his journal appeared in the results . I figured I'd post mine (according to Statcounter.com). Fortunately (or unfortunately) mine are not anywhere near as exciting as his. Perc. Search Term 5.80% ora-07445 4.35% orapwd invalid username password 2.90% exception signal: 11 oracle 2.90% alter user sys 2.90% move tempfile oracle 8 2.90% ora-01031 sysdba 1.45% oracle password file orapwd 1.45% htmldb_public_user change password 1.45% htmldb startup 1.45% oracle 10 bind parameters ora-07445 1.45% address not mapped to object ora-07445 1.45% failed to start a managed process after the maximum retry limit 1.45% failed to start a managed process htmldb 1.45% decode(true in oracle 1.45% 9.2.0.7 patchset filename 1.45% opmnctl startall htmldb 1.45% sql number exists oracle htmldb 1.45% opmnctl: starting opmn managed processes 1.45% 3440097 oracle 1.45% shutdown immediate oracle insufficient 1...