by Robert Buda | Jul 10, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Database, Oracle DBA
When it comes to Oracle database administration, one of the most revered parts of your database structure is the fast recovery area (FRA). This is an Oracle managed area where DBAs usually store some of the following files: Redo logs Archive logs Flashback logs...
by Robert Buda | Apr 22, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Database, Oracle, Oracle DBA
One of our customers had issues over the past several months with Oracle Active Data Guard replication to a standby server. The database on the standby server would intermittently fall out of sync with the database on the primary server, and log files were not...
by Robert Buda | Apr 9, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Database
One of the principles of Buda Consulting’s database coverage is that we always have at least two people who know your databases and your environment. This best practice is especially important at this time. In normal times, this helps with responsiveness and...
by Robert Buda | Mar 20, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Oracle DBA
I’m sure you have heard—if not experienced—the following scenario. A student is working on a research paper and suddenly her PC crashes. Because she did not follow the golden rule of saving your document every sixty seconds, she lost hours of work. You would think by...
by Robert Buda | Oct 3, 2019 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Uncategorized
The year was 1982. I was a Computer Science student by day and a baker by night (well, early morning). My boss Al at the Tiffany’s Bakery in the Staten Island Mall had asked me to help him figure out how much each of his products actually cost him, so he could...
by Robert Buda | Sep 30, 2019 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Oracle, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
I’ve blogged before about the importance of checking database backups. Over 90% of new clients that we assess have backups that are either incomplete or totally unusable (true statistic!). The following story of a backup failure that happened recently—and the...
