A very long hiatus
It has been 10 months I haven’t made a new post on this blog. My life has taken quite a turn since October last year. I started a new job that involves more than just DBA work, but also managing IBM AIX systems. It’s production support work as well as project work, so it can get a bit tough going with the shift work and on-call duties. Blah! it’s all about challenges in life!
There’s been so much to do in this job, the majority of my time is spent on performance tuning on the data-warehouse and Informatica jobs running their ETL load. I have built up an Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g infrastructure, but I want to move onto 11g soon. Right now, I am working on a project to upgrade our databases to 10g and 11g, and finding SQL Tuning Sets very useful. I also got to had a look into Real Application Testing.
It has been a great learning curve on this new job, and I am not finding time to read and write blogs as I used to. Maybe I will settle down soon, so hopefully, I will get back into blogging.
