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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Database Activities

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  1. Database Installation:

    • Installation of database software in the servers
    • Identification of database configuration parameters
    • Creation of database templates for UAT, Development and Testing environments
    • Setting up of security profiles, roles, etc
    • Implementation of latest available and recommended patches based on the analysis of Application Database Setup

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  2. Database configuration activities:

    • Creation of schemas
    • Configuration of table space/data files
    • Addition of users and setting their access privileges
    • Distribution of the files across the file-systems for the better I/O
    • Monitoring the application and providing optimal values for memory to achieve the maximum availability of the application

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  3. Storage Management & Capacity Planning

    • Providing growth trend analysis of the database on a periodic basis
    • Identification and establishment of thresholds
    • Plan for additional forecasted capacity

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  4. Patches & Upgrades

    • Maintain current knowledge of available patches related to the database
    • Identify appropriate patches

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  5. Security Management

    • Access control
    • Auditing
    • Authentication
    • Encryption that includes both data and backup’s
    • Creation and publishing of appropriate security standards for the database environment
    • Vulnerability assessment attempts to find vulnerability holes that could be used to break into the database
    • Continuous monitoring for compliance with database security
    • Monitoring of database users’ activities depending on the security strategy
    • Regular review of permissions granted to individual users and automated processes

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  6. Database Tuning

    • Resolve memory allocation issues
    • Effective utilization of the available resources
    • Perform Instance Tuning
    • Check and configure the change log and audit log
    • Perform database parameter performance tuning tasks
    • Perform tuning tasks to prepare for the loading of a large number of users
    • Analysis SQL’s needs to be tuned.
    • Analysis locks, latches, and Wait events
    • Analysis of dead locks

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  7. Backup and Recovery Planning

    Designs backup and recovery planning strategies in order to recover from any malfunction/data loss in live databases in the shortest possible time interval.

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