I just finished teaching a DBA class and surprisingly, few of the participants , despite having experience in the database administration, hadn’t really touched Flashback technology in a great detail. Though it’s not a new topic but I thought, let me write about it to make sure that more DBA’s are aware of this. Biggest […]

In this post, we shall see how we can set up automatic backup for our database created in the Exadata Cloud Service environment. Creating a database backup can be done in two ways in Exadata Cloud Service environment. You can either create a backup on on-demand basis or you can configure automatic backup for your […]

I have been using aliases in Linux from a long time. But I was teaching a class today and some students asked me to explain it(it was a basic database administration class for newbies). So it’s more a reference about the aliases. Aliases are short forms of the long commands that one may use in […]