Introduction In today’s business environment, being a successful DBA is more than just being technical. If you want to excel in this profession, you must be seen as someone who understands both the business and technical aspects of the applications you support. In last week’s post, I started providing a general set of recommendations on [...]

Setting up a Successful Test System in Oracle This meeting is held as soon as the application developers are ready to begin the actual coding process. The ultimate goal of this meeting is for application developers to have a firm understanding of what is required to create and maintain a successful Oracle test environment. Discussions [...]

Let’s continue our discussion on the Art of Being a Successful DBA. The intent of this blog is to help administrators design and standardize on a formalized design review process. The goal of the design review process is to identify and address application design, process flow, program logic and SQL statement problems early in the [...]