Gavin's Blog

OK, so, study time, what have I learnt in this fancy new environment I'm in (see previous post...), and what do I need to learn.... hmmm, maybe go over what I know first...

Lets look at the 10g Exam details again, remembering I'm studying for 10g OCP before tackling OCM. So I'll buzz over that in a day or so, knock off the exam for OCP, finish up studying for OCM and get fully Gurufied by August...

OK, now back to reality. 10gOCP.

I'd already looked at the privileged connection options, now lets look at the "General High Availability Technology", which I think sounds weird, coz it's a fuzzy type of HA, it's highly available technology because you don't have to stop people working because of other people stuffing up... Which I spose makes it available... ok.

Now's when I bring out my secret weapon... the wiki.

I've been working with some new people over here, (obviosly, since I'm 10,000km's away from anyone I know...), and one consultant here, showed me his wiki, sounds rude I know but bare with me here... (crickey, another rude pun.;-)

I'm sure you know what a wiki is by now, if not, google it and you'll get 667 million responses, (just a bit of info about it...) I never liked the idea, I thought it was just another internet fad. But here was a website sitting on his local machine that he used as his knowlege repository.. I'd ask him a question, and he'd say, "I remember something about that..." and jump to his... what would you call it, his brain overflow?

I thought "how cool is that", I mean, my brain's full as it is, and here I am trying to cram more in like a sucker...

So I've just downloaded and installed (bashed and bruised as I am) this wiki site.
Now, as I go through this research, I'll be putting the relevant
links and notes in my wiki, coz you and I both know this research thing
will not be a quick process. (If people are interested, I'll post some screen shots later as the wiki becomes populated...)

I've even got a subversion repository in there, so now when I go to client sites, I can keep an eye on the critical conf files and what's changed... pretty cool. (TANGENT, get back on track Gavin...)

Alright, so next entry in my wiki, (it looks cool too, I call it "TheFridgeDoor", coz I'm going to keep my running list of things to do on it...like my fridge...tangent...I'm just a little excited about it...)

Ok, time to tick things off.

General High Availability Technology
    Explain the Oracle Flashback feature
    Describe Resumable Space Allocation

Now we're cooking on gas...

Just on a side note, I'm Australian, therefore I say Australian things, I've realised (being in a non-english speaking country) that people can get confused by Australian colloquialisms.. If you're reading these blogs and have no idea what I just said, let me know ;-)