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Written by Martin
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 00:00 |
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This is the first ever website I have run, and it started a long while back in 2004 if memory serves me right. It contains my "knowledge base", little notes to myself that I wrote because I'd otherwise forget them. And also to help me out when I'm on site with a customer-Internet access is generally available, and if it has to be on the mobile phone. Some of the articles written are getting a bit old now-before blindly following them check the date when the article was written. I hope I have added version and platform information as well.
Safe Harbour Statement
Although I have taken great care to ensure thath the content is correct, I can take no responsibility for any problems arising from the use of the website. When in the slightest bit of doubt, raise a service request with your vendor to double check that the approach described on this blog is viable.
About Myself
Describing oneself is always hard, let's try this: I started working with the Oracle DBMS since 2001. Since mid 2010 I have raised my bar considerably by starting my own consultancy company, "Martin Bach Consulting Ltd".
My main interests are high availability and disaster recovery solutions for mission critical 24x7 systems for which I possess a wealth of experience. For some years now I spent more and more time discovering the benefits of virtualisation technologies for Oracle products, mainly by using VMWare ESX Server and Oracle VM. With Red Hat's decision to back KVM in favor of their own virtualisation solution I started to look at KVM more carefully. One of the benefits of being a consultant is to get around-my current customer is one of the UK's biggest Exadata customers and I enjoy working with that technology a lot.
I am co-author of "Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux", together with Steve Shaw and contributions from Julian Dyke.
As of December 2008 I am a proud member of the Oracle Certified Master community, having successfully passed the exam for Database 10g Release 2. I am equally proud of my Oracle ACE status, a reward I received in August 2010. And if that wasn't enough, I am now a member of the Oak Table Network too.
When not trying to get the best out of the Oracle database or working on understanding its internals, I can be found presenting at various UKOUG meetings in the south of England. In the remaining spare time I contributes to the Oracle Scene and DOAG news, the UK and German Oracle User Group publications as well as the iX magazine which is read by over 50 000 people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Essential skills:
- Oracle Exadata
- Installation and administration of Oracle 8i through 11g R2 on Solaris, Linux, AIX and Windows in RAC, active/passive and single instance configuration
- Very strong knowledge of all Oracle core technologies (RMAN, Data Guard, Real Application Cluster, Streams, Automatic Storage Management, Security)
- Enterprise Manager Grid Control 12c and 11g Release 1
- SQL Performance Tuning
- Oracle database server virtualisation on VMWare and OracleVM
- Oracle Database Certified Master 10g Release 2
- Oracle ACE
- Oak Table Member
- Oracle Database 10g: Administering Real Application Clusters Certified Expert
- Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) for Database Releases 9i and 10g
I have registered with the following social networking sites (click on the image to get to the profile):
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:15 |
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Written by Martin
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:37 |
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Upcoming presentations and public appearances:
Oracle User Group Norway, March 21-23, Oslo
Myself and Martin Nash are going to run RAC Attack, initially created by Jeremy Schneider in the USA during the March meeting of the Norwegian Oracle User group. It's a great honour to carry the concept into Europe after we have done it successffully during UKOUG 2011.
For the schedule of the conference which includes a lovely boat ride, have a look at the website: http://www.ougn.no/program-2012
UKOUG Availability Infrastructure & Management SIG, March 14th, Oracle City Office, London
I will be speaking at the follow-up to the RAC and HA SIG about patching with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12.1
Recent presentations and public appearances:
UKOUG Annual Conference, December 5-7th, Birmingham
I am very pleased with the fact that for the second time was presenting at the annual UKOUG conference. Slides of my talks (except the one about the private cloud) are uploaded.
Introduction to Oracle HA - webcast on www.OracleRAC SIG, October 27th, 2011
This introductory level session aims at providing an overview of Oracle High Availability options to users of traditional single instance Oracle deployments who are interested in ways to make their database more highly available.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:26 |
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