Re: Oracle projects for beginners
- From: Pete Finnigan <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: norman.dunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:14:13 +0000
Hi Norm, Gabriel,
I like both ideas but the one thing I would say to Gabriel is modify the
idea to something that adds value to the team or is useful in general.
I find if someone does something that is "real" they really feel that
they are learning and being useful.
Maybe modify your idea to keep everything but make the data real; maybe
something useful to the DBA team such as monitoring or backup logs or
listener logs ....
If you choose things like this dont load them back into the prod
database and allow access (security concerns!)
cheers
Pete
Dunbar, Norman wrote:
> Morning Gabriel,
>
>>> Im trying to help a person to improve Jr DBA skills, I was
>>> thinking on small projects with challenges that will make
>>> this person to research on several oracle features, i.e:
>
> What you suggest is good. However, I would say that backup and recovery
> should be (probably) the most important skills area for any DBA. Might I
> suggest your junior DBA goes away and researches hot & cold backups with
> and without RMAN, making point in time recoveries, restoring tablespaces
> or data files only, getting a control file back from RMAN, cloning
> databases to a different server and to the same server (be careful!).
>
> Get him/her to document what they are doing at all times for future
> reference. Talk about problems that they may encounter, how to work
> around/fix etc.
>
> Basically, they need to know, as a DBA, exactly how important a backup
> is, that it is taken correctly and is usable, but even more importantly,
> that a recovery is possible and how to perform one given a backup in any
> format.
>
> Set up a small Linux desktop, or similar, and put a database or two on
> it. If you have a couple of desktops spare, then the exercise of
> restoring or cloning a database across different servers can be
> practised as well.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
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