DBA Tasks - Industry standard guidelines

Hey :
As a DBA what are the recommended tasks that we should be doing regularly?
- Daily tasks
- Weekly tasks
- Sanitary checks frequency
- Must have documented reports
- What else??
I am looking at putting a system in place for the team. Any industry standard reference and guidelines would be good starting point for me.

Hi,
Any industry standard reference and guidelines would be good starting point for me. Everybody has a differing idea of the DBA job role. I've been a DBA for 25 years, and I would say the main duties include:
Install, patch and maintain all Oracle software
Tune all Oracle instance components including SQL and PL/SQL
Approve all production schema changes
Approve changes to database design
Control all migrations of Oracle schema objects
Design and implement a backup & recovery system
Implement Oracle failover technology
In addition, in some shops the DBA's take-on responsibility for a whole new set of Oracle DBA tasks:
Data modeling and Oracle database design
Data interface protocols
Managing data security
Managing development projects
Predicting future Oracle trends for hardware usage and user load
I have more notes here:
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_job_duties.htm

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