What does a DBA do all day?
Responsibilities include installing, configuring, and managing the database, and these responsibilities can be divided into tasks scheduled to occur at certain intervals. This is a generalized list and, depending on your environment, may or may not be applicable. Most of the outlined tasks will be investigated further in later chapters in the book.
Monitoring and Log Rotation tasks can be done with Enterprise Manager, Grid Control, Unix shell scripting, DBMS_Scheduler, Perl, third-party database tools, or a combination of any of these.
Prioritizing tasks—daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly
Let's run through the priority tasks you need to cover. Scheduling will depend on your environment, application needs, and ...
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