Adelante Ltd - Oracle (Database Administration) DBA 's a speciality

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Oracle Database Administration Services

Typically companies have one-off or ad-hoc projects which cannot justify a full-time Oracle DBA presence. Alternatively, there maybe a situation where there is a full time Oracle DBA team and resourcing may become an issue as the 'business as usual' maintainance work and new project work continually pull on the in-house DBA resource pool in different directions with neither area being given the attention required. Priorities constantly change as urgent support problems that need to be fixed drag resource off critical path project work, resulting in project slippage.

Adelante Ltd can help by providing Oracle DBA resource to undertake specific tasks acting in either 'business as usual' or project scenarios. This will allow you to successfully manage your DBA resource pool, empowering your DBA's to focus on the assigned work without distraction.

All work is tailored to your specific requirements and negotiated under a fixed price policy, guaranteeing that cost will not spiral.

The following list is merely a guide as to what can be achieved and is not exhaustive.

Database Health Check

We will produce a full detailed audit report of any database aiming to highlight problems and propose recommendations. This will include the following areas :

Performance
Database configuration
Backup and recovery review
Capacity planning and loading requirements

Oracle Installs/Upgrades

For new projects, this can become a large bottleneck if there are a large number of installations that need to happen before development/testing can begin. Let us ease the resource burden and perform on-site installs/upgrades for you.

Maybe you know which Oracle version you want to upgrade to, but do not know what the implications are. In this case we can perform an upgrade assessment for you detailing the steps necessary to perform the upgrade and report upon the impact of change on the application.

3rd Party Package Implementations

Many Companies now purchase off the shelf packages that require Oracle database as a datastore or use Oracle iAS as the webserver.

Let us take away all of the database and webserver implementation issues by performing a fully documented custom installation, configuration of Oracle products and Oracle database builds tailored specifically to the 3rd party package requirements.

As part of this service, we can act as a liason between you, the customer, and the 3rd party vendors for all Oracle issues that arise during rollout.

Backup and Recovery Strategy

Although an individual database/application backup and recovery strategy is covered in the Database Health Check, you may feel the need for a backup and recovery review encompassing the whole company or a multitude of database servers. This may also include a disaster recovery capability assessment.

Database sizing/builds

Your development team has designed your business application, but you cannot produce a hardware specification because you do not know how big the final production system will be. Adelante can produce for you a full database sizing and configuration report using knowledge and techniques built up through years of implementing real production Oracle databases.

You may wish to go one stage further and let us deliver a suite of database build scripts to create your production database according to the sizing and configuration report. A simple step by step installation guide will be delivered detailing how the scripts should be run.

If you would like any further information on any of the above services, please feel free to contact us by e-mail, telephone or our On-Line Contact Form.