Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Collaborate 18 Session: Networking for the Cloud DBA

Thank you all for coming to my session today. In my years of experience managing DBAs, I find that the basic concepts of networking are always the weakest link in the knowledge to get things together, at least for the DBAs. In this session you learned how netmask, CIDR, routing table works, how that fits together in a cloud world, where a knowledge of networking is not just nice to have; but an absolute must.

Download the preso here. As always I highly appreciate your comments, here as comments or directly to me via twitter @ArupNanda or by email arup@proligence.com.

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Collaborate 18 Session: Microservices Using Python and Oracle

Many thanks to all those who came to my session at Collaborate 18 today. I sincerely hope you enjoyed the session and learned something new in the process.

Here are the files you can download:

1. The presentation
2. The list_avail template
3. The hotel.py python program (download the file and remove the .txt extension)
4. The hoteld.py python program

In case you wanted to visit the Python learning series I wrote, here is where you can find it. bit.ly/python4plsql

As I mentioned, I presented about Oracle and Python at Oracle Code event a couple of months ago in New York City. Here is where you can get the scripts and the presentation.

Monday, April 23, 2018

Collaborate18 Session: Real Life DBA Best Practices

Thank you all those came for my session at IOUG Collaborate 18 today. I hope you learned something new and inspired by something to make your task a bit easier, a bit more efficient and a whole lot enjoyable.

You can download the presentation here.

Remember, a best practice is something that can be explained as:
1) why it is good, or what specific good comes by following it
2) what happens if you don't follow it
3) what circumstances it doesn't apply, if any

If you hear a "best practice" without any of these, reject it politely. And most of all, create your own best practices and promote them. We all deserve to learn something new to make our collective life a bit easier.

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