Hands-on 5 week Sunday workshop for Oracle 12c RAC, ASM and Clusterware

My friend and fellow Oracle Certified Master Gavin Soorma is offering this five week online workshop on Sundays, which looks very interesting for people seeking to learn about these advanced Oracle technologies. 

This online training workshop will help you build your own personal two-node Oracle 12c Release 2 Real Application Cluster environment and learn in-depth about Oracle 12c RAC, ASM and Clusterware Administration.

The five week, 20 hour online workshop commencing on Sunday, September 10th will include hands-on lab exercises for each module (for which remote support will be provided) and cover a wide variety of topics including :


<> How to install and upgrade Oracle 12c (R1 and R2) Grid Infrastructure 
<> How to administer and manage Oracle Clusterware including Flex Clusters 
<> How to create and manage policy and admin-managed RAC databases 
<> ASM architecture, Diskgroups, ACFS, Flex ASM 
<> Applying a patch to Grid Infrastructure and Database Home
..... and more!

This course will cover the main topics from three separate Oracle University Courses (12c RAC Administration, 12c ASM Administration and 12c Clusterware Administration).

The cost of the training is 599.00 USD which would otherwise have costed close to 10,000 dollars for attending all three official Oracle University trainings! There is a further ten percent discount if you use the discount code mentioned below.

Kindly register for the training course via the URL mentioned below.

Registration URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8163520178345738754

On this form, type the discount code "OracleSeniorDBAGroup" in the Discount Code field for a further special TEN PERCENT DISCOUNT on the 599 USD cost of the course.

Regards, 
Porus Homi Havewala.

Licensing|Circle - Oracle Licensing Comprehensive training course (12 modules)

We finally can release the pre-launch discount code for Licensing|Circle - the comprehensive training course on Oracle Licensing. The discount code for the full course is "OracleSeniorDBA10" and this code is valid until 15-Aug-2017. The full course with 12 modules is here:

https://licensingcircle.com/p/oracle-license-management-training

As mentioned earlier, Oracle Licensing can be a complex subject, and a lack of its understanding for Oracle professionals (including DBAs) could almost certainly lead to substantial financial risk exposure due to contractual non-compliance. To help avoid such scenarios, training on licensing is essential. Licensing|Circle is globally the first and only comprehensive & online training, reference, assessment and certification platform on Oracle License Management.

I hope you have enjoyed the free module of Licensing|Circle. If not, you can still request FREE ACCESS to the first module ('Oracle Licensing Overview') of the training by following the instructions in the link below.

https://licensingcircle.com/p/oracle-license-management-training-free-preview

If you need any support, you can write to info@licensingcircle.com

Best Regards,

Porus Homi Havewala

Part II: Private DBaaS using Enterprise Manager

Part II of my article series looking at the private Database as a Service (DBaaS) Cloud – how to set up such a cloud, and how to use it effectively using Oracle Enterprise Manager.  https://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/b/weblog/archive/2017/07/11/database-as-a-service-using-enterprise-manager-part-ii

Comprehensive Training on Oracle License Management

With the current "Journey to Cloud" scenarios, one of the main reasons cited is Oracle licensing.

Oracle Licensing can be a complex subject, and a lack of its understanding for Oracle professionals (including DBAs) could almost certainly lead to substantial financial risk exposure due to contractual non-compliance. Depending on the size and complexity of the Oracle license estate, the commercial value of the non-compliance could run into $$ Millions during an official audit.

To combat this, we now have Licensing|Circle, which is globally the first and only comprehensive & online training, reference, assessment and certification platform on Oracle License Management.

You can now request free access to the first module ('Oracle Licensing Overview') of the training by following the instructions in the link below. https://licensingcircle.com/p/oracle-license-management-training-free-preview

After a few days, we will announce a discount code for the full course.

I am sure this will be a huge value add for all members. I suggest you request access to the free module initially for a head start into the course. If you need any support, you can write to info@licensingcircle.com

Private DBaaS using Enterprise Manager

My article series looking at the private Database as a Service (DBaaS) Cloud – how to set up such a cloud, and how to use it effectively using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

https://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/b/weblog/archive/2017/06/07/database-as-a-service-using-enterprise-manager-part-i

New Blog "Clouds and Databases"

Dear Friends,

I have started to write on a brand new blog "Clouds and Databases" that I created recently.

On the new blog, I will be writing about different cloud technologies and databases. Please also join me there if interested in the cloud.

The blog address is http://cloudsanddatabases.blogspot.com and this is how it looks:

Regards,

Porus.

Enterprise Manager Functionality without the Packs

A friend asked:

“I know we can use Oracle Enterprise Manager without the packs. However, is there any document that shows in detail what database monitoring and alerting functionality is provided by Enterprise Manager (12c version) without using any packs.”

The answer was:

This information is in the “Enterprise Manager Licensing Information” guide.   Chapter 10, “Base Enterprise Manager Functionality” outlines the list of features that are included with the base functionality of Oracle Enterprise Manager. 

For the database side of things, See the “Base Database Management  Features” section in this chapter. This includes things like the following (that you can do without any pack licenses in Enterprise Manager):

• Set up and Schedule RMAN backups
• Set up and manage Data Guard Standby databases
• Use Data Pump to move data
• Manage Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Clusterware
• Use some Advisors such as Segment Advisor and Memory Advisor
• Manage critical errors via Support Workbench
• Manage database objects such as tables, indexes, views, materialized views etc.
• Manage optimizer statistics and SQL plans
• Set up Resource Manager for the database
• Manage database users, roles, profiles etc. 
• Manage control files, datafiles, tablespaces, log files etc.
• View SQL execution history, execute SQL statements
• Use Scheduler Central to manage jobs maintained by the database as well as Enterprise Manager
• Get My Oracle Support (MOS) Critical Patch Recommendations
• Perform PDB operations in Database 12c with some caveats for the free stuff, as described in an earlier blog entry here.

The link for the full set of base database features is here. Thanks for your question, and hope you have gained an understanding of what can be done as part of the base functionality.