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Welcome to the programmer's playground
Written by Martin   
Tuesday, 07 October 2008

The-playground... What an odd name, I have to admit now - I thought it'll remind visitors of the inspiring website run by Sun Microsystems.

However this is the domain name I have registered and I am happy with the provider and their service, so why change? 

Anyway, I am now trying to regularly update the site with bits and pieces, mainly around Oracle and Linux or Oracle on Linux.

About Myself

Describing oneself is always hard, let's try this: I started working with the Oracle DBMS since 2001. 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.
 
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.

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:
  • 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 11g Release 1
  • SQL Performance Tuning
  • Oracle database server virtualisation on VMWare and OracleVM
  • Oracle Database Certified Master 10g Release 2
  • Oracle Database 10g: Administering Real Application Clusters Certified Expert
  • Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) for Database Releases 9i and 10g

 Although I am not a great fan of social networking sites, I have registered with the following:

XING         
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 June 2010 )
 
Publications Update
Written by Martin   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008

New blog went online

After some years now with my venerable joomla-based blog I have decided to go with the tide and get a wordpress-based blog as well. Check it out on http://martincarstenbach.wordpress.com/

There has been some great success, in 4 weeks I got some 700 visits and got severely hooked on those blogs stats. Keep coming, new posts will be announced via twitter: http://twitter.com/MartinDBA

Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux

It is my great pleasure to announce that I am co-author of Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linx, together with Julian Dyke and Steve Shaw. The book is in an alpha stage, and the raw version can be purchased at a discount price. You get the option to download the final book as a PDF on top of that. So why wait :) The Apress website lists the book here:

http://apress.com/book/view/1430229586

Oracle User Community and iX

It's been some time ago now that I have last wrote for a community publication,but finally there is going to be an article in the next (Summer) Oracle Scene about MRP0 problems and how to deal with them.In addition there is a paper for the 2nd part of my data guard broker article, which went out with Oracle Scene 38.

Issue 01/2010 of heise's ix featured an article about execution plan stability in Oracle. I have another one in the pipeline dealing with RAC 11.2 improvements.

The article I announced about detailing database consolidation using 10g RAC, with the use of services, resource manager and the like has been published in iX 6/2009.

Speaking of an Oracle user group publication - there was an article about streams replication published in the summer issue of DOAG news (but unfortunately they don't provide a listing so I can't link there).

Click on the "more..." link to see all my publications.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 June 2010 )
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Presentation Update
Written by Martin   
Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Next presentations and public appearances:

RAC and HA SIG 10.06.2010
 
A superb agenda and finally outside the Oracle office. Julian Dyke, Harald Van Breederode and Joel Goodman are going to present. I will be part of the expert panel on high availability. Hope to see you there!
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 June 2010 )
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