I’ve been an Oracle Database Administrator for more than 15 years, and a Unix/Linux System Admin for even longer. I’m an open source advocate and computer hacker in the truest sense of the word (not those low lifes who break into systems, those are “crackers” and usually not capable enough to rise to the level of true hackers). The media has corrupted this word and made me a little ashamed to use it, much like I would be ashamed to identify myself as an American in some places, due to the bad reputation created by a few bad apples.
Understanding how a thing works brings a sense of accomplishment like none other for me. That is the real definition of a hacker. It’s rather broad I admit. There are many of us in various professions. The ones in technology are the geeks who people go to when stuff breaks. It’s amazing how popular we’ve become, the rise of technology has also brought about the rise of the geeks and hackers in our society.
This blog is my attempt to “give back” a little after using information in the blog posts of other DBA’s for many years. Some posts will be long and involved, some probably just short tips for making life as a DBA a bit easier.
I hope this proves useful to someone.
Dennis