Gavin's Blog

I know it's been ages, and a few people would have thought that I'd given up, but no...

Thanks to those posting comments so far, it's been interesting to get different perspectives and opinions, Roxane, it's never too late to try something new. If you have a passion for something, then chase after it. Otherwise you'll end up regretting it later.. And Charles, I'll keep posting if you keep reading... And maybe post a few more comments on the way...


Alrighty, on with the study.

Hang on, before I get to it, I should explain where I've been. I know it looked like I'd dropped of the side of the earth, which is close but not quite. As I've mentioned before, I work for Oracle Consulting, which allows me to see some interesting clients with all sorts of weird and wonderful setups. Well, I now find myself sitting 1/2 way round the world from where I left you, implementing some absolutely awesome stuff. I'm not sure how much I can talk about, with Oracle's confidentiality clauses etc, but part of the implementation, is the one and only 10g RAC database sitting on ASM.

What better way to prepare for OCM than to go through a few implementations!

This got me thinking, it would be pretty tough wanting to do this OCM thingy if I was working with older versions of the DB everyday. Not being able to use 10gDB in anger would mean a heap more theoretical study, which is fine coz that'll never go astray, but we need hands on, nitty gritty stuff here, if I'm gonna do this OCM 2 day prac exam, I gotta be ready.

If you're planning to go through OCM, you're obviously a DBA already, but are you using 10g? If not, start banging down a few management doors!! "We don't care if it doesn't make business sense to upgrade now, WE WANT  ENVIRONMENTS TO LEARN ON!!"

might work?

If you are on older versions, what are they? Surely nobody's on 7.3.4 or 8.x 8i still... Don't get me wrong, they were great, I cut my teeth on them, but....

Anyway..... honestly. I'm gonna start the study soon.

Actually, I'll start a new entry for that, this one's pretty long as it is. You wanna get your money's worth after all...