Database Standard Operating Procedures documentation
Hi,
I'm looking to standarised Oracle Database processess including planning,configuration,Installation, maintenace etc. by using best practices. Please advice where I can find best practices docu and other standared.
thanks
I would start by looking at Oracle's support and technology network. There are often white papers and similar written about best practices for different features of Oracle.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html
or particular for databases
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/index-152657.html
finally i go to the search page and type in best practices ???? for what every i want to see best practices on.
http://search.oracle.com/search/search
Here is a very small presentation that I found by googling.
http://www.virtual-dba.com/pdfs/Xtivia_WP_Oracle_Best_Practices_2008.pdf
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Thanks for your reply. Can we use the document creation (CV01N) functionality without implementing DMS? Our requirement is each and every in-house produced material having SOP sheet which is contain lot of parameters as well as having instruction (long text). We are currently maintain as an excel sheet. We have to attach each file against each material and it should be attached with PI sheet. Let us know the possibility, 2 cases we have planned to try,
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How the below functionality will help us to meet the requirement?
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Also, I love the work of the IT Process Institute, Gene Kim (CTO Tripwire) and Kevin Behr (Assemblage Pointe) and others on bringing science to IT... ever heard of the Toyota Production System? Ever heard of an IT version? But I digress (if your interest is piqued - private message me!).
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Trigger / Driver - what starts this whole thing, possibly a connection to a preceding SOP?
Input - what information is required to do this job?
RACI - for this procedure, who is Responsible (who does it), Accountable (who supervises?), Consulted (who helps), Informed (who is notified)
Resources - what tools and suchlike are needed for the actions (e.g. the list of changes to make to /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Actions - the unambiguous action to do, down to the most intricate detail - do not summarize, do not leave open to interpretation.
Timing - for each action, like the marks on the Toyota production line that shows in 32s you should be at step 3.
Output - A measurable outcome
So I'm desperately seeking SOPs and people who are interested in this stuff - I believe it's the key to increasing throughput and reliability of change, as do many others... do you?I'm planning on separating a SOP from an STP - Standard Technical Procedure.
So the SOP will have a list of actions / STPs with how long they should take... example:
1. On the SOP, one action is "logon to host" and it should take 2 minutes
2. The STP is "Use SSH + RSA keyfob to connect to bastion.vmware.com, then SSH from bastion to host with username"
So on the A4 piece of paper, it does not go into n'th degree of the technical procedure, which may, as you say, require screen shots and stuff.
And the A4 suggestion is figurative, because all of this should be online anyway, but keeping it short is my point.
An SOP is equivalent to a project manager's Work Package (Prince2 term?).
Like you say, I'll write up a sample and try and get that looking good with your help (and others?) - then tackle the rest.
I am particularly keen on the time it takes to do an SOP... not just the steps required. How does one limit unplanned yak shaving (to quote John Troyer!).
Your list looks great, and I've seen a similar one in PSO with HTML interactive screens... -
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Once CREATE_DB_STDFORM has been used to create this additional metadata, it can also be used to import data into the workspace either from flat files, or from Oracle tables and views. If you don�t have Express Objects metadata in the Express database, CREATE_DB_STDFORM doesn�t work, and you�ll have to use Oracle Warehouse Builder 9.2 to initially create a relational star-schema that equates to the Express database, then use the OLAP Bridge within OWB to export the data into a database standard form analytic workspace.
CREATE_DB_STDFORM, once run, allows the migrated Express database to be accessed via BI Beans straight afterwards, as it creates all the OLAP Catalog entries required for the OLAP API. If the Express database only contains data at the lowest level (i.e. it hasn�t been rolled up), aggregation wizards in the Analytic Workspace Manager can be used to summarise the data as required.
CREATE_DB_STDFORM doesn�t do everything, however. First of all, you need to have created Oracle Express Objects metadata within the Express database, which is an additional step and not always appropriate for all systems. In addition, you need to create time dimensions in a particular way, which may require the data model to be adjusted to meet this requirement. Lastly, any Express language programs within the Express database may need to be adjusted to remove or change commands that have changed or become obsolete.
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SHUTDOWN: Active sessions prevent database close operation
Hi
Yesterday morning, our Oracle Apps Database did not shutdown and throws the following error.
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Since last 3 years, we never faced such a situation even though many modules (oracle Apps) were implemented from time to time. This time OTL module is going live and consultants were running some procedure during backup start time.
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Any help is highly appreciated.
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Arizuddinyou can first do a alter system checkpoint and then try to shutdown the database.
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Question about database creation :
Till 10g we need have to select "Oracle JVM" component as by default during the database creation . Is it the same case with 11g database creation too or can we skip this component . I have created the db skipping this component . If we miss this can you let know what problems we might be facing in patches . As of now while applying 11.1.0.7."5" to db i have not seen any issues .
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VenkatI don't know what you've been looking at but I have never, to the best of my faltering recollection, ever had to do what you describe.
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Question about what the content should be for a database standards document
Hi Experts,
I am working as development DBA in a J2EE project and have a task to create a database standards document. The document should be used as a reference by the developers when they submit requests for database changes - like adding or making changes to the database schemas (adding tables/modifying them etc.). I thought of what would be the right content for this type of standards document and I think that such a document should have the following as database standards:
1) Naming standards for the database objects.
This will include all database objects like tables, columns, primary keys, foreign keys, views, triggers, procedures etc.. For example a standard can be defined like: all primary keys should be named as PK_TABLENAME. All indexes should be named as <TABLE_NAME>_IDX01 etc.
2) Use of Oracle reserved words should be avoided in the schema object names.
3) The names should be descriptive so as to make their purpose self evident.
4) Wherever possible, tables should have primary keys.
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6) When submitting request for a new table/tables, typical queries against these new tables should also be worked out and based on that indexes that will be needed for the new tables should be defined. In case this is not clear at the time of initial table creation, it should be clarified within 3 weeks (just a reasonable period to be mentioned here).
Is this fair enough content forthe standards document or does it miss some important aspects? Note that we do not have to cover in this document standards for database creation or RAC installation etc. It is a document of standards to be followed by developers as a reference when submitting database changes. I will be thankful for your review.
(Oracle version info: We are on Oracle 11.2.0.2 on Solaris 10.)
Thanks,
OraserNrp0428 wrote:
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5) Wherever possible columns should be defined NOT NULL -as it helps performance (Indexes on NULLABLE columns are not used by the optimizer).
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That isn't true - post a link that supports that statement.
Heap indexes do not INDEX null values but indexes on NULLABLE columns are most certainly used by the optimizer for use cases where your query is looking for non-null values.
Columns should be defined NOT NULL when your business requirement is that the column should ALWAYS have a value. You can, of course, adopt some standard default value (e.g. 'U' for unknown) and make an otherwise NULLABLE column NOT NULL so that each row WILL be indexed. That may only be useful if you want to be able to search for rows that have that value and those rows are in the minority.Then I must be wrong....I will modify the standard as:
5) Whenever the business requirement is such that the column will allways end up having a value , then all such columns should be defined as NOT NULL. Also if a column can be defined to have a default value then this default value should also be specified.
Hope this is more proper then earlier and thanks a lot for the review!!
Edited by: orausern on May 13, 2013 9:53 AM -
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when migrating from 32 bit Linux to 64 bit Windows version on database standard edition, is there a server media needed?
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Cami977689 wrote:
hi,
when migrating from 32 bit Linux to 64 bit Windows version on database standard edition, is there a server media needed?
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Dear All,
I have configured the Ecc 6.0 version.i have used standard pricing procedure
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