Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 0 · Orientation
An environment you may break
Lesson 3 of 184 · 3 min
What you need, what it costs, and why doing these labs against a client system is THE ONE SHORTCUT THAT ENDS A CAREER RATHER THAN A LESSON. Every lab in this course ends by breaking something on purpose. You will kill processes, corrupt a datafile, fill a filesystem, apply a patch and roll it back, and restore from a backup having proved you needed to. None of that is safe on a system anybody depends on, and all of it is essential to learning. SO YOU NEED AN ENVIRONMENT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DESTROY. A VM you own, a cloud instance you pay for by the hour, or a sandbox your employer has explicitly designated. The test is not "is it non-production", it is "can I take it down for a day and tell nobody" — because a shared development instance is somebody's working day when you break it at…
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The video, the complete written lesson and the module quiz are included in Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive, with a certificate on completion and a fourteen-day refund window.
In this module: Module 0 · Orientation
- 1What you will be able to do
- 2What this course is not
- 3An environment you may break
- 4How to use the labs