DBA duties

[vr76413]

Hello all..

I have Oracle 9.2 on sun 5.8

What are the things i need to look into Daily, Weekly, monthly for the database.

I look into Alert log , and check the nightly backup's. What other things do i need to look into on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.?


Appeciate if anyone can help me on this
Thanks
Ron

[stecal]

DBA 101 by Oracle Press/Osborne
DBA Bible by IDG Books
http://tahiti.oracle.com

[patel_dil]

DBA Job responsibilities vary by organizations. Anyways, You can check the following Document which lists the daily, weekly and montly tasks that are performed by DBA's in general. This Document is old but still holds good.

www.quest-pipelines.com/newsletter/checklist.doc

[justadba]

Those lists are good places to start. As was stated above, generic duties vary from site to site. The best advice is to be proactive on your systems and dig into them to insure you know how they are set up and running so that when a problem comes up you don't have to spend time looking to see how it was.

And for your backups I cannot stress heavily enough to verify the backups were valid. I knew a site where all they did to verify the backup was to look at the byte count for the tape backup. Then when they had to restore from tape they then discovered that their backups were not any good and they could not restore from tape. From time to time take a backup tape and restore it to a test server to insure that your process is working correctly.

[hrishy]

Hi

Have a look here..

http://www.dbazine.com/liu2.html

regards
Hrishy

[marist89]

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs...1/dba.htm#4755

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