Jun 09

OCM 11g Preparation – Where to take the exam

The place to take the exam is one of the most difficult things to decide if you do not live near a test center. The OCM exam is very expensive. You need also to add to this cost hotel + flight + anything else during your exam trip. So, first of all, the most important …

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Jun 01

OCM 11g Preparation – Assign jobs to windows

Instead of creating schedules and linking jobs to them, you can also define a job to run during a Window. So the job will start when the Window begins and you can also forcely stop it when the window ends. Practice for this topic assigning a job to a window and a window group. Path …

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Jun 01

OCM 11g Preparation – Create job classes

Job classes are also templates for jobs, but instead of defining a standard “code” format, like PROGRAMS, with classes you pre-define the logs retention and capture standards, resource consumer and services. For this item, practice creating a job class via EM and assign a job to it. Like programs, it’s less probable that this item will be requested …

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Jun 01

OCM 11g Preparation – Create programs

Programs are like “templates” for job’s code. With a program you can pre-define the procedure/executable and arguments for a job. So, if you change your body code or call (let’s say you renamed or changed the location of the shell script that execute via JOB), all you need to do is to modify your PROGRAM instead of every job. …

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May 27

OCM 11g Preparation – Create schedules

Schedules are predefined dates/times/interval to run something. In this topic, you must know how to create one using EM or SQLPlus (less probable). Be ready to access the “Calendaring Syntax” in the official documentation if you need any extra custom setup that is not available in Grid Control interface. And also practice creating a job with …

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