Does the idea of a professional, experienced team of Oracle certified
DBAs managing your database systems round the clock appeal to you?
With our Oracle managed services offering, called DBA Pro, we offer
affordable, reliable Oracle database support provided by our team of
Oracle Certified Professionals.
Via these Oracle remote
DBA services, we'll handle proactive maintenance, monitoring, and
responding to your database system alerts so that you can focus on
what it takes to grow your business. We offer a number of flexible
support options so that you can select the most cost-effective plan
for you based on your particular needs for Oracle database
support—from part-time DBA work to full-time support on special
projects that occasionally arise. DBA Pro offers access to experts
when you need it and cost-effective services at the level of support
you need.
To be proactive and keep Oracle systems running smoothly, it takes the
right combination of skills, experience, and the proper tools (see
next section). The certified Oracle DBAs on our team maintain ongoing
communication with you regarding your database operations and goals.
Our focus is on using best practices and doing things right the first
time in order to avoid performance issues, data loss, or downtime.
In addition to setting
your systems up properly and making sure you have the level of
availability required along with a tested backup and recovery plan, we
feel it's critical to monitor a variety of metrics to ensure your
database continues operating smoothly. With our custom-built tools we
can track database performance over time and plan ahead for increased
capacity needs. For example, if a developer submits new code that
taxes your system, we'll know it pretty quickly.
Our experience—along
with our tools—helps us proactively assess your database systems and
make adjustments to avoid a crisis. If a critical problem does arise,
we know about it within minutes. And, depending on the level of
service you have selected, we deal with those issues accordingly. Our
goal is to keep your systems running smoothly and provide the level of
expertise you need to quickly resolve any database problem that may
occur.
In addition to our hands-on work, we use an extensive set of
custom-built monitoring tools called Database Rx to monitor the health
of your database systems. Database Rx provides secure, automated
monitoring and analysis of your Oracle databases. Our team uses these
tools to monitor your database systems, proactively manage performance
and growth, and keep your systems highly available. You receive
real-time notification of performance, stability, and scalability
issues before they compromise performance or result in expensive
downtime.
Many
powerful and easily customizable reports are available. These reports
provide current and historical information in areas such as alerts and
events, database growth, tablespace size, high resource SQL, instance
activity, performance ratios, wait events, and redo log activity. All
of this information is stored in our Performance Portal. As a client,
you can securely access this portal at any time to view past database
reviews, track performance history, and administer portal access for
others in your organzation.
Our monitoring tools and remote access policies are developed to fit
in with your system security and firewall integrity. There is no need
to provide remote access to your database to an outsider. The Database
Rx agent runs from a severely restricted operating system account and
connects to your database with very limited privileges. The agent has
read-only access to your data dictionary, and no access whatsoever to
your application data. Data is transmitted from your server to the
Performance Portal via encrypted email. Because all data transfer to
the Performance Portal is initiated on your server, you are in
complete control, and your system security and integrity are
maintained. (You may optionally grant us remote access via secure
shell or any number of popular VPN systems as your company policy
dictates.)
After choosing
Miracle™, we immediately assign two
experienced Oracle certified team members to be your primary and
secondary DBAs. They will get you set up with DBA Pro, following six
easy steps that will have you up and running very quickly and with
minimal effort.