Gavin's Blog

It's been almost a year, and this OCM exam prep is still hanging over my head. Yes I'm still looking at it, but no, I haven't done anything about it...

So, I'm following Sergio's lead... I'm starting over.


I was thinking of topics that might be interesting to both you to read and me to write about, (so I'm more likely to continue posting) and have come up with a few ideas.

Complex Implementations: It's something I'm getting a bit of practice with, and I'm not talking about just a RAC database and a few apps servers here.. one of my last implementations included over 30 ORACLE_HOMEs across 8 products.

The other idea is "YAAB", Yet Another AppsDBA Blog: I'm an AppsDBA by trade, and have worked on all versions from 10.7NCA to R12. But who'd want to read my blog about stuff that people like Stephen Chan wrote about 3 months ago!

I'll probably do a bit of both, but I've got some good ideas for the complex implementations stuff that might go ok. It'll at least run for about 5 or 6 entries, so that should do me till the end of 2009... no, just kidding, I hope to update regularly. (More than once a month would be a good target..)

As well as any updates on my OCP/OCM preparation when/if it happens of course.

What do you think, sound good?

Good. here we go then.