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April Sims
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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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Automating day-to-day tasks


Options to automate the DBA tasks mentioned in the previous chapter include some of the following:

  • DBMS_SCHEDULER: Oracle-supplied PL/SQL package that comes preinstalled

  • OS scheduling commands: Certain tasks such as monitoring file space usage and removing old trace/log files are often scheduled using something like Unix cron or the Windows at command. The best options include tasks that need to run no matter the database state—down, up, or mounted.

  • OEM Grid Control Intelligent Agent: Requires installation and configuring to run OS type commands. A very useful Enterprise-wide monitoring tool but quite an investment in time to configure and maintain for multiple servers.

Let's look at an example task and apply it to each of the three types of automation mentioned above: Monitoring the Database Alert Log.

DBMS_SCHEDULER

DBMS_SCHEDULER, along with the power of PL/SQL, provides a mechanism for automating some of the daily tasks mentioned earlier in this chapter. Using...

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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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