Oracle Database System Service


Keeping your Oracle database systems highly available and well tuned takes knowledge, skill, and experience. We know that your environment is unique. And we know that it requires technical expertise as well as good communication to maintain optimal database performance. Therefore, RYJAC recommends the following services based on our clients goals and technical environment.

Database Administration Services

With our offerings, we can configure a program that best suits your technical, business, and budgetary goals. We work as an extension of your team to set up and manage your Oracle databases to maintain reliability, scalability, and peak performance. You are assigned a primary and secondary RYJAC DBA. Either individual performs all work on your database.

Services
Assignment ofprimary and secondary Database Specialists
Initial setup  
 
  • Introductions and contact information exchange
  • Set up infrastructure
  • Establish secure remote access to your servers
  • Install, configure, and customize monitoring tools
  • Review system, environment, databases, applications, and procedures
Monitoring  
 

24×7x365 monitoring of [Client]’s databases, operational indicators, storage, and alert logs

Comprehensive monitoring and alert notification in areas such as:

 

- Instance configuration parameters

- Messages in the alert log

- I/O and free space

- Tablespace sizing and configuration

- Redo log configuration

- Rollback segment configuration and contention

- Temporary tablespace configuration

- User configuration

- Session statistics

- Wait events and locks

- Latch statistics and contention

- Shared pool statistics

- SQL statement execution and performance

- Object sizing and storage

- Index definitions and usability

- Database jobs

- Customer-defined metrics and alerts

DBA Services (continued)
Monitoring (continued)
 

Alerts sent via email or pager to [client]’s staff

Individuals set their own preferences for which alerts to notify by email, by pager, both, or neither

10+ powerful and easily customizable reports available round the clock

 

- Alerts and events

- Past alerts and events

- Database growth

- Tablespace size

- High resource SQL

- Instance activity

- Performance summary

- Performance ratios

- Wait events

- Redo log activity

- Daily reviews

- Monthly reviews

Customized Level of Coverage, Notification and Escalation
 

Notify client of events and recommended course of action

Daily database review and recommendations

Monthly database review, recommendations, and report

Full access to support team during normal business hours

24×7 pager support with guaranteed response time

Included database administration consulting hours per month to be used for proactive maintenanceand any Oracle database related work needed by [Client]

Proactive maintenance for client pre-approved tasks

   
The following activities are a sampling of activities that can be performed as part of the included hours in your monthly plan. Activities that are requested above and beyond included hours will be billed on an hourly basis.
Services
Fault Management  
 

Proactive maintenance to reduce risk of service disruption

Recommend solutions and changes to minimize impact of a failure

Post mortem analysis to avoid recurrence of a database or application failure

Backup and Recovery
 

Audit backup and recovery procedures

Test backup and recovery procedures

Recommend modifications to reduce risk of data loss

Recover database and data

Performance Management
 

Assist with application architecture and design

Review statistics regularly and at pre-defined intervals

Proactive tuning of application code, memory, I/O, and CPU usage

Maintain performance data archive for historical and planning analysis

Monitor and evaluate resource consumption

Configuration Management
 

Monitor database instances for configuration changes

Recommend changes for instance and session configurations

Recommend changes to maximize recoverability and manageability

Identify invalid objects, disabled constraints, disabled or invalid triggers, space and resource allocation constraints for user accounts

Services (continued)
User and Role Management
 

Create and maintain user accounts and roles

Audit database access and security

Capacity Planning
 

Resource requirement projections

Trend analysis

Data archiving and purging

Oracle Support
 

Opening TARs and following them through

Patch procurement and installation

Research using MetaLink

   
Consulting Services
We want you to think of RYJAC as your Oracle partner. From designing and building new database systems to seamlessly maintaining large production systems, we work alongside you to provide reliable, scalable, high-performing Oracle systems. Often times our clients ask about services and special projects that are not covered. Through our daily and monthly reviews, we will discuss our current approach and proactive ways to ensure that your system maintains its peak performance. You can select consulting services to be performed as part of its monthly service hours. Our experts make suggestions that include features from our Consulting Services as well as other services that may not necessarily be listed.
Consulting Services
Database Analysis and Design
 

User requirements

Database functionality

Logical and physical design

Data modeling

System architecture

Database architecture, design, and review

Schema changes and enhancements

Database Management
 

Capacity planning

Installations

Enhancements

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Upgrades

Migrations

Production support

Creation and support of development, test, QA, and production databases

Backup and Recovery
 

Strategies, planning, and implementation

Hot backup

DataGuard

Standby database

Multimaster replication

Distributed database architecture

Database recovery

Auditing and testing

Documentation

Consulting Services (continued)
Applications
 

Architecture and design

Code review

Work with developers to pinpoint problem queries

SQL optimization

Training
 

Coaching for junior DBAs

Knowledge transfer and procedure documentation

Seminars on client-requested topics

Mini-sessions on ad-hoc issues

Migrations, refreshes, and data archives
 

Database upgrades and migrations

Apply patches

Copy production databases to development and QA areas

Archive and purge data