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Written by Martin
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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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 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, Atomatic Storage Management, Security)
- Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g Release 2
- 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
Altough I am not a great fan of social networking site, I have registered with the following sites:   
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 December 2009 )
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Written by Martin
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
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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
Printed Publications
It's been some time ago now that I have last published, the most recent paper is the 2nd part of my data guard broker article, which went out with Oracle Scene 38. I've got 2 more papers in the pipeline for the first 2010 issue of Oracle Scene, so fingers crossed. The next issue of ix will feature an article about execution plan stability in Oracle which is now finished and awaits going into print.
The article I announced about detailing database consolidation using 10g RAC, with the use of services, resource manager and the like is out with ix 6/2009 I've got another one lined up about plan stability, also for an upcoming issue of iX - if there's time I'll transform that into a PPT and present about it at UKOUG - who knows. Speaking of an Oracle user group publication - there is an article about streams replication to be published in the next issue of DOAG news (but unfortunately they don't provide a listing so I can't link there).
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 January 2010 )
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Written by Martin
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
Next presentations and public appearances: Real Application Cluster & High Availability SIG
10. February 2010
Reading, Thames Valley Park, Oracle Headquarters This is a very technical agenda with great content-worth coming around, check http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=4547
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 January 2010 )
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