Entry point in Oracle DBA

My name is James, and I am a resident of seattle WA. I am a software and hardware tester profesional both in manual and automation using windows and linux (but mostly software testing on windows platform) for the past 6 plus year. However, I am looking forward to go into oracle DBA. I have intermediate experince with MS SQL 2005/2008 and oracle 9g/10g. What is the best resources out there or book(s) that I can use to enhance my oracle DBA skill and is there a way to get an entry oracle DBA position out there to kick off as an oracle DBA? Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
-James.

Its getting near impossible to get into the Oracle DBA field, unless perhaps you are a developer at a company that just happens to need a DBA and you are in the right place at the right time.
Most companies have downsized their DBA staffs, and most companies now expect their DBAs to take on much more databases as well as other responsibilities, including web server administration, develop SQL and PL/SQL and reports, and just about anything else your supervisor happens to need without having the funding to hire someone.
Just as you noted, to be a DBA today requires at least 3-5 years experience, along with a couple years of RAC, Data Guard, Streams, TT, and whatever else is new, and perhaps a Top Secret Clearance that has been active within the past 6 months.
Its near impossible. Even then, if you happen to have all of the above, there will likely be 20 or 30 (or more) qualified applicants for every job opening. But most companies are not hiring to fill permanent positions. They would rather hire you as a temp worker that they don't have to worry about laying you off, or paying your benefits. And of course, if you work for a temp agency, they don't have benefits. And most companies don't want to hire someone who has been working for temp agencies very long because they think you will just leave for the next opportunity to make more money.
And if you do happened to get hired by a company in a permanent position, they will likely put you on as a salaried employee that they can exploit and work you 55 hours a week without compensation or time off for hours over 40 hours.
So catch-22 is exactly right. For a newbie, I think it would be easier to get a IT related job within a company and then perhaps transfer positions later when or if one ever opens up.
It sounds like a bleak picture, and actually it really is, especially for a newbie coming into this field. I'd recommend considering web page development for eCommerce type software. That seems to be where the money is, (if you don't mind doing that kind of work).
Just my two cents...

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You don't even have to go that far. Look at the predictions for the 'paperless office' . . .
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Database tuning and performance monitoring.
Application tuning and performance monitoring.
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Well, that's ONE "definition" of a DBA. It's far from "the" definition.
I'll tell you what. I've actually sat on committees that drew up lists like that. I can tell you first hand that while a lot of things on the list may look legit, there is also a lot of pressure just to fill up the list with as many things as possible in order to justify head count to the bean counters. You could just as well add 'weekly cleaning of the left-hand smoke shifter.'
Then lets look at them one by one:
Installation, configuration and upgrading of Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL/Oracle server software and related products.How often Installation happens? Once for one new app. Usually app vendors have recommendations that DBA should follow. So, what is DBA's role here? Start installer and to follow.
Configuration and upgrading will be more and more automated.
Except the app vendor left out critical details they didn't think were critical because they don't understand the database. Or have bogus 'requirements' because they don't understand the database. Or their recommendations were based on how they did it in their pristine development lab and they never even knew about critical dependencies that might not exist outside of their lab.
Week before last I spent 50 hours working on installing a new database based on the app vendor's specifications ....
Evaluate MSSQL/MySQL/Oracle features and MSSQL/MySQL/Oracle related products.Again, how often? When new App is about to be created and designers need to choose which DB they will need.
And then they proceed to develop on rdbms-A using best practices they learned from rdbms-B -- which turn out to be worst practices on rdbms-A. And only when they go live do they discover that their design doesn't scale because they tried to re-invent (poorly) functionality built into the database.
Establish and maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures.Again, how often yo need to establish policies and procedures? Every time you put in a new app with a different SLA.
Backup itself is 100% automated already today. Only if you buy off on the lowest common denominator.
Recovery is close to 100%.Oh? Go spend some time in the RMAN forum ...
And even if it were close to 100%, 'close' only counts "when playing horseshoes or hand grenades."
Most of enterprise backup software support backup and recovery of major RDBMSs.
Just specify a date "from" and click Go.
A little bit complex with RMAN. You have to type(!) RESTORE DATABASE; RECOVER...
Until the cause of failure was something the automation didn't anticipate. Or you then discover that your 100% automated-out-of-the-box backup didn't work the way thought it did. Oh, it 'worked' all right. Just not the way you thought it did.
Take care of the Database design and implementation.Where? Only in development shops.
Depends on what you mean by 'database design and implementation'. And most companies have some sort of development, even if they don't recognize it or call it that.
Implement and maintain database security (create and maintain users and roles, assign privileges).Centralized enterprise security (Domain etc) are in use. Many apps have their security and use basic RDMS security to login App running user.
Until such time as "nothing changed" but "I can't connect to my database".
Database tuning and performance monitoring.Greatly automated. Ultimately will be 100% automated.
Until it's not. See my comment above about developers.
Application tuning and performance monitoring.There are enterprise solutions for monitoring. Also Oracle has Grid Control.
Application tuning can be done by app vendors.I've NEVER met an app vendor that knew **** about how their app impacted performance. 100% of them throw it back on the DBA. I had an app vendor tell me that Oracle was incapable of sustaining more than five concurrent connections.
DBA cannot tune App itself. It may only modify some things in DB that will perform better. And this will be automated.
No, because the database cannot anticipate what stupid things the vendor may do. And it can only work with what it is given.
Setup and maintain documentation and standards.How often?
As often as anything that is documented, changes. As often as it is discovered that something that should be documented, isnt'
Plan growth and changes (capacity planning).Well, DBA should do it. But, again, how often?Should be almost constantly. Given budget cycles, you can't wait until your disk is 98% full before asking to buy more.
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Work as part of a team and provide 7×24 supports when required.Where such 7×24 support policy exists.Look at my comments above about how these lists get created in the first place.
I can tell you from experience that such 24x7 policies are more common than you seem to think. Just about any financial processing business, logistics and transportation business, telecom business ...
And what from above should be supported during a night by a human?
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Interface with MSSQL/MySQL/Oracle for technical support.Oh yeah... :)
ITIL Skill set requirement (Problem Management/Incident Management/Chain Sure, two days of training to know basics of ITIL to understand what manager of Helpdesk (Support and Incident Management Team) is talking about.
So, I see DBA should go in of 3 directions:
1. Very deep technical expert that can help in some rear and difficult cases. How many of them will be needed?
2. SQL/ETL/etc Developer. There is not much automation in software development yet.
3. DB Design and Architecture. How many of them will be needed? May be more that #1.You seem to think that automation will solve everything. Take that to it's logical conclusion and it will put all of IT out of work. See my comment above regarding "End User Computing'. What you forget is the human element. Not the human DBA trying to do things you think are or soon will be automated. No I'm talking about the humans that create the kinds of problems that automation is *always* trying to catch up with. Pointy Hair Bosses dreaming up new requirements. Bean counters refusing to by an additional 10 gb of disk. Developers that refuse to learn and/or follow best practice. Developers that can't think beyond clicking an icon to create a table. Developers that treat an rdbms as a data dump and try to use Java to re-invent every bit of functionality the db already provides. Systems administrators that delete all of your online redo logs because he needed disk space and 'log files are expendable'. End users that forget their password *EVERY F****** DAY!*
No, I don't spend my time managing extent distribution like I had to do with 8i. Yes, a lot of things I had to do manually in 8i are now successfully automated to the point I don't have to do them .. or have simply been engineered out of the system. But no amount of automation will overcome the ways humans (Executives, managers, supervisors, other IT team members, and users) figure out how to bring a system to its knees.
This whole discussion reminds me of Dippin' Dots. "The Ice Cream of the Future". Well, it's been "The Ice Cream of the Future" for almost 30 years ....
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7. (This step is Optional) Setting up your Single Sign-on allows the site to remember your login and not prompt for it so frequently. To do this, click my Profile at the top of the page. Then click Maintain my Single Sign-on Certificate on the left of the page and follow the instructions.
8. After the Single Sign-On, Click on Help & Support and click Report a Product Error. Under System Search, click the drop down arrow next to your installation and choose your system, and click Search and then click on the BOB link.
9. When creating a SAP message it is required to search for Notes. (Knowledge Base articles) to see if you can find an answer to your question without having to log the message for support. In the Search Terms area, type your question and click Continue.
10. If you do not see any Notes pertaining to your question click on Create Message.
11. Choose the correct Component for the product you are creating the message for. The component is the support Q that your call will go into so the correct team can assist you. To do this click on the icon next to the icon next to the Component window to see a drop down list.
12. Click the arrow by BOJ-EIM to see a more detailed list. By each component the names of the u201Cproductsu201D you are using are listed. Choosing the correct component will get your Message logged for the correct support team.
For example:
a. BOJ-EIM-COR is used for ACE, DataRight IQ, Match/Consolidate, IACE, and FirstPrep products.
b. BOJ-EIM-COM is used for DeskTop Mailer, Business Edition, Presort, PrintForm, Label Studio
c. BOJ-EIM-DEP is used for DQXI, Data Insight, eDQ Infa, SAP Siebel, PSFT, Oracle, Rapid Library
d. BOJ-EIM-DF is used for Data Federator
e. BOJ-EIM-DI is used for Data Integrator, Text Analysis, Data Services
f. BOJ-EIM-DS is used for Data Services, Fazi/Fuzzy
g. BOJ-EIM-MD is used for Metadata Manager and Composer
h. BOJ-EIM-RMA is used for RapidMarts, BOW
13. After choosing the component, fill in any remaining required/optional items. **Required fields under Problem Details are flagged with a red asterisk.
· In the Short Text box, enter a brief description of the question or issue.
· In the Long Text box, you can go into further detail about what you are seeing or questioning.
· On this page also you can select to attach files if needed (please zip your files).
· When you are finished you can either click on Save Message or Send Message. If you click on Save
Message, the message WILL NOT be sent to support, it will remain in the Draft section of your u201Cmy
Inboxu201D for you to send later.
· If you want to send the message to technical assurance now click Send Message.
· You can see the messages you have u201Csentu201D to support by clicking My Inbox and viewing your Sent
Items.
Thanks,
Kendra

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Hi,
After upgrading from 8.1.7.0 to 8.1.7.4 on Windows 2000 server, when I try to start the Oracle service for a SID, I get an error message that the procedure entry point kglttr cannot be found in orageneric8.dll.
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Any suggestions? I've got a customer site where I need to do this ASAP, and I can't turn the process over to them until I get this fixed...
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Why?To fix some bugs and to enhance your performance
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installed Software:
.NET 2 redistribution
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The same application built with VS 2003 .NET 1 and installed ODAC101040.exe
works fine.
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I tried the suggestion above using the MS GAC tool and I still have the problem so I am looking for any other suggestions or thoughts as to what could be wrong:
gacutil.exe /i "C:\Oracle\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\odp.net\PublisherPolicy\1.x\Policy.9.2.Oracle.DataAccess.dll"
gacutil.exe /i "C:\Oracle\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\odp.net\PublisherPolicy\1.x\Policy.10.1.Oracle.DataAccess.dll"
gacutil.exe /i "C:\Oracle\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\odp.net\PublisherPolicy\1.x\Policy.10.2.Oracle.DataAccess.dll"
gacutil.exe /i "C:\Oracle\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\1.x\Oracle.DataAccess.dll"
gacutil.exe /i "C:\Oracle\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\2.x\Oracle.DataAccess.dll"
I used gacutil.exe out of "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin" and each insert said it was successful.
The specific error I am getting in VS2008 with SP1 is: _getContextXml:Unable to find an entry point named 'OpsPrmAllocValCtx' in DLL 'OraOps10.dll' in a .NET 2.x project.
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