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Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 18 · Capstone: a system handed over

The brief

Lesson 179 of 184 · 2 min

An estate you did not build, with NO DOCUMENTATION, AN UNVERIFIED BACKUP and A PERFORMANCE COMPLAINT. The brief is ordinary rather than contrived: this is what taking over an estate actually looks like, and it is the situation most of this course has been preparing for. THE THREE ELEMENTS ARE NOT EQUAL AND THE FIRST TASK IS SEEING THAT. The performance complaint is the loudest, the documentation gap is the largest, and the unverified backup is the only one that can end the business — Module 1 Lesson 1's ordering, arriving as a real decision rather than as a principle. SO THE TEMPTATION IS TO START WITH THE COMPLAINT, BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS ASKING ABOUT IT. That is the wrong order, and knowing why is most of what this capstone tests. Tuning a system whose backups have never been restored is optimising something that may not survive the week, and Module

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In this module: Module 18 · Capstone: a system handed over

  1. 1The brief
  2. 2Establishing what you have
  3. 3Making it recoverable
  4. 4Making it observable
  5. 5The performance complaint
  6. 6The handover