Activity of a DBA

Hi there,
Here is a simple question...
what will be the activity of a dba as soon as he enters the office?
The question may looks very simple but it has been asked in an interview which i attended.
how can startup a database if one of my redo log is missing?but i have all the control file and datafiles?
please write me the answer..
Thanks in advance.
Balu.

Hi,
An Apps DBA has specific experience with Oracle Applications in module wise such as MFG,FND or AD. This usually means having some understanding of the business domain as well as being able to navigate around a schema of 8000+ tables.
Bear in mind that although there is currently a lot of demand for Apps DBAs this is not guaranteed to last. Also, I suspect being an Apps DBA is a bit duller than being a regular DBA because you're less likely to be involved in novel, groundbreaking projects. (Any Apps DBAs out there who spend their entire workling lives with their posteriors hanging over the edge of a cliff shoudl feel free to contradict me).
I don't think it's possible to set out to be an Apps DBA except by being taken ion by a company that uses Apps. If you're just starting out you may need to take whatever job gets offered to you. But if you have the financial wherewithal to hold out for an Apps job then good luck to you,
Rgds,
S.Jai
Shanthi Gears (LTD)

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Hello.
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Hi Patrick,
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[#|2013-02-25T14:34:39.021-0500|WARNING|oracle-glassfish3.1.2|com.sun.grizzly.config.GrizzlyServiceListener|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|GRIZZLY0023: Interrupting idle Thread: http-thread-pool-80(73).|#]The max threads is currently set to 100.
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End UPDATE
Again, thank you for taking the time to reply. Everything seems to be working fine for the past couple days, but I figured I'd provide some current data, especially since I'm still curious about all these "sessions".
Are we talking about page 4350:45 which shows the following information
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Where does it show 17,400 sessions for you? It almost appears that your daily APEX jobs are not running which do normally purge old APEX sessions automatically. See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37097_01/doc/doc.42/e35129/dbms_jobs001.htm
Yes, this was the page I was referring to. I just checked it now and it showed me the following:
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Sessions older than 1 day(s) = 0And it does appear that the APEX jobs are running since there are no sessions older than 1 day... unless I'm interpreting this information incorrectly.
Also, I was able to get some more data regarding page loading using the Debug info:
14763     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     4 seconds ago     0.0000
14760     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     9 seconds ago     0.5300
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14754     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     19 seconds ago     0.0160
14751     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     24 seconds ago     0.0160
14748     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     29 seconds ago     0.0160
14745     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     34 seconds ago     0.0160
14742     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     39 seconds ago     0.0160
14739     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     44 seconds ago     0.0160
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14706     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     99 seconds ago     0.0150
14703     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     104 seconds ago     0.0150
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14694     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     119 seconds ago     0.0160
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14688     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     2 minutes ago     0.5300
14685     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     2 minutes ago     0.5150
14682     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     2 minutes ago     0.5300
14679     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     2 minutes ago     0.5300
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14670     7751818952614     nobody     101     7     show     46     3 minutes ago     0.5930
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0.34300     0.00000     ...NLS: Set g_nls_timestamp_format="DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM"     4
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0.42100     0.01600     Setting NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT to application timestamp format: DD-MON-YYYY HH:MIPM     4
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0.46800     0.00000     ...NLS: Set g_nls_timestamp_tz_format="DD-MON-YYYY HH:MIPM"     4
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0.46800     0.00000     Application 101, Authentication: PLUGIN, Page Template: 61331314513900454147     4
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0.46800     0.01600     fetch items (exact)     4
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Again, everything seems to be running smoothly at the moment so the above data is more to help satisfy my curiosity about the inner workings of Apex.
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from
sys.dm_exec_cached_plans p
cross apply sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes(plan_handle) AS epa
where
p.usecounts = 1 and
p.objtype in ('Adhoc','Prepared') and
epa.attribute = 'dbid'
group by
epa.value
option (recompile)
Thank you!
Dmitri V. Korotkevitch (MVP, MCM, MCPD)
My blog: http://aboutsqlserver.com

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i have problem with dba sutdio the help is out and i would like to know if someone can give me the new version of dba , if not can you tell me what i can do ?
THANK

Hi All
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Message was edited by: Sasidhar Reddy

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Hi,
When trying to "Configure DBA Cockpit" in Managed System Configuration ,I got the below error .
We are on Oracle 10.2.0.4.0 and Solution Manager SP22.
Database history :Not supported for this DB platform
Extractors activation :The DB performance warehouse is not available, thus the DB extractors were not activated
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Thanks in advance.....
Srini

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"Not supported for this DB platform"
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1. The total number of times a user called BRIGG connects to the database in a day(24 hour period)
2. The STATUS in V$SESSION could be ACTIVE or INACTIVE. I needed to track as to how many times, the user BRIGG was ACTIVE on a given day(24 hour period)
Thanks

1.
You can audit user logons with the database trigger and then run sql over your own audit table (http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_builder_sec_audit.htm)
or
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Check out this article - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1689
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