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Using a Degree to Ward Off a Layoff

Millions of people have been affected by the recent recession and the global financial crisis that perpetrated it. There have been countless loss of jobs, many more pay cuts, and an equal number of loss in bonuses and raises.

From the Database-Geek.

Here are some links I thought might be useful (or at least interesting) to you:

Job Search

Does your resume look fine to you? Maybe it could use some editing: Critique Your Resume

With the economy in the tank, anyone can lose their job. If it’s been a while, you might need to read: Job Hunting for the Rusty

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Well, I am no longer working for EnterpriseDB. It was fun while it lasted but it’s over so I am moving on. I found a new job, locally. It’s pure Oracle and I will get to use Real Application Clusters in a production environment. That’s something I haven’t done in the past so I am looking forward to it. It’s also a java, .net and Oracle Forms shop and they are doing some interesting things with telecommunications and SMS.

From now on, I will only need to travel for conferences. No more trips to New Jersey. That’s kind of a drag as I was almost at elite status on Continental.

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I am now listing Oracle Jobs here on the Oracle DB News blog. You can click the banner above or on the list of jobs to the right.

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If you need a job, think about going this route.

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This is part 4 of a 3 part series. Heh I guess this qualifies as a little lagniappe on security and audit. I could have called this Oracle Audit but I already spoke about audit in Part 3. I just decided to continue on in the series.

This is a brief, technical discussion about the implementation of audit in Oracle 10g. I’ll quickly show how to turn on standard audit and how to see some of the audit taking place. I’ll follow that with an implementation of FGA and finally a trigger based audit.

One aspect of auditing is to audit your administrators.

Regardless of any regulations you are required to meet you can implement a security and audit scheme that will cover you for most, if not all, eventualities. Having good security and auditability should be desirable regardless of regulations. It protects your business.

In parts 1 and 2, I covered the security side of it. So what do I mean by Audit? Well, auditing is knowing what’s going on in your environment. Future research requirements, accountability, error correction, etc are all covered by audit.

So how does Oracle implement audit? There are several ways you can do it: Standard Audit, Fine Grained Audit and Trigger Based Audit.

Warning: Personal Soapbox Approaching.

I was reading a newsgroup discussion and the topic of DBAs and their usefulness/trivialization came up (yet again). This topic seems to show up at one time or another on every Oracle discussion board.

Whether I agree or not with any of the things said in the discussion doesn’t really matter. It got me thinking about the topic and I have a different perspective to the question. My personal soapbox on this issue is the definition of DBA. Are DBAs being trivialized in the enterprise?