Oracle Resources

AskTom - AskTom, by Tom Kyte of Oracle Corporation, is easily one of the best Oracle question and answer sites on the web.

DBASupport.com - A general Oracle portal containing articles, scripts and excellent forums.

Metalink - Oracle online support services.

Oracle Certification - Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) homepage.

Oracle Corporation - Oracle corporate homepage.

Oracle Magazine - Online version of the Oracle magazine.

Oracle Technology Network - Central resource for all Oracle software, documentation and sample code.

ORAPerf.com - Analyze STATSPACK reports online.

Oracle on Red Hat Linux Portal

Underground Oracle FAQ - An Oracle Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) site.

www.bijoos.com - General Oracle DBA resources site.

www.idevelopment.info - Jeff Hunter's DBA / Development Web Site

www.oracledba.co.uk - Oracle DBA, maintained by Connor McDonald, contains excellent technical documentation including the whimsical Custom Hit Ratiotool that shows you how many more unnecessary LIOs you need in order to raise your database buffer cache hit ratio to any number

Oracle Tools and Utilities

Oracle SQL Developer - Oracle SQL Developer is a free and fully supported graphical tool for database development. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also run any number of provided reports, as well as create and save your own. SQL Developer enhances productivity and simplifies your database development tasks.

PL/SQL Developer - PL/SQL Developer is an Integrated Development Environment that is specifically targeted at the development of stored program units for Oracle Databases.

TOAD - Empowers developers and DBAs to be more productive by providing an intuitive graphical user interface to Oracle. TOAD is a powerful, low-overhead tool that makes PL/SQL development faster and easier and simplifies database administration tasks.

Data Masker - The Data Masker sanitizes sensitive information in test databases by replacing it with realistic looking but false data.

DataBee - If you have large Oracle databases you almost certainly need smaller versions for testing, training or development. DataBee simplifies the process of creating referentially correct "subset" versions of these databases.

Gudu Software - Help DBAs and Developers to deal with common administration tasks.

Quest Central for Oracle - Comprehensive database management solution designed to provide the basic functionality every DBA needs to get through their day. Equipped with complete database administration and performance management capabilities in a common interface.

Spotlight on Oracle - Boost system performance by avoiding bottlenecks before they happen. Spotlight on Oracle displays real time data flows and lets you drill down to their source for quick resolution.

STATSPACK Viewer - Statspack Viewer utilities with easy-to-use graphical interface allow Oracle database administrators and tuning experts to get most from Oracle STATSPACK utility introduced in Oracle8i database management software.

News And Blogs

Andy C - Blog in isolation.

Doug's Oracle Blog - Oracle Musings and Animals

Eddie Awad's Blog - News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle, ColdFusion and other fun stuff.

Hotsos Happenings - Oracle. Performance. Now.

Johns Blog - John Scott's meandering thoughts.

Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog - Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics Related to Oracle Databases.

Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog - News, views, tips and tricks on BI, Reporting and Data Warehousing using Oracle technology.

OraBlogs - OraBlogs aggregates blogs for the Oracle development community.

Oracle Newbies Blog

Oracle Performance

Oracle Scratchpad - The Jonathan Lewis blog.

Oracle Sponge - A Data Warehousing Resource

Oracle Stuff I Should Have Known !

Oracle WTF - Inspired by the marvellous www.thedailywtf.com, whose only fault is a shortage of Oracle examples. Well, yes, we could provide some, but we thought we'd do this instead.

OracleBlog - Let's think about how to solve our data problems using Oracle. Let's discuss different ways to get things done, and agree on what works the best. Let's share our tips, tricks and "gotchas". Let's enjoy working with Oracle more by sharing our stories.

Orawin.Info - Thoughts, discoveries and otherwise maybe useful stuff about the Oracle RDBMS

Pete Finnigan's Oracle security weblog - PeteFinnigan.com's weblog is the only weblog dedicated to Oracle security.

Peter Scott - The rantings of a middle-aged computer consultant and generally nice person.

Radio Free Tooting - Notes from the Tooting Bec Underground (Andrew P, Clarke)

Scott Spendolini's Blog - Some random thoughts about starting a small business, Oracle HTML DB and other things.

Slashdot - News for nerds. Stuff that matters.

So What? - Incoherent ramblings about automating the role of Database Administrator in an Oracle Environment.

The Register - IT industry news.

The Tom Kyte Blog

We Do Not Use Blogs

Forums

Oracle Technology Forums

DBASupport.com Forums

Favorite Software

Apache HTTP Server - The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT.

AVG AntiVirus - Free Edition - AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product. Available for Windows and Linux!

BluBox - Blubox is an incredible software product that can quickly compress and encrypt your photos making it easier and safer to share them over the Internet.

Bugzilla - Bugzilla is server software designed to help you manage software development.

CentOS - CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.

Firefox - The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy.

jEdit - jEdit is a mature and well-designed programmer's text editor with 7 years of development behind it.

PHP - PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

phpBB - phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.

phpMyAdmin - A tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

UltraEdit - UltraEdit the #1 selling, most powerful, value priced text editor available! The ideal text, HEX, HTML, PHP, Java, Perl, Javascript, and programmer's editor!

Unslung - Unslung is one of the streams of replacement firmware for the Linksys NSLU2 network storage device.

VMware - Powerful Virtual Machine Software for the Technical Professional.

WordPress - WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

xine - xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.

Training

Database Domain - The Database Domain is an information hub provided by Animated Learning, Inc., a company that specializes in the development of sophisticated multimedia training courseware to train database administrators and application developers the challenging concep

Inventio Consulting - Offering IT training services throughout the UK.

JoraPh Consulting Limited - JoraPh Consulting Ltd are a specialist consultancy company providing high level performance tuning, re-design and troubleshooting for the Oracle database. Our senior consultants are all former Oracle employees with many years of experience in their field.

Oracle Learning Network - The Oracle Learning Network is the single access point for online content offerings available to Oracle University customers.

OracleCoach - OracleCoach is a premier resource for Oracle Training and Course Material. We deliver the knowledge and expertise that IT professionals need to become Oracle Certified.

Consulting

DATAbase DBA - DATABASE DBA provide remote oracle database administration.

DSP global - DSP Global provides Oracle environment management and technical support services for eBusiness Suite and Database technologies, including R12 and 11g.

EvDBT - Evergreen Database Technologies, featuring Tim Gorman contains many valuable documents for the Oracle designer, developer, and performance analyst.

Hotsos Enterprises Ltd. - Hotsos (pronounced "hot sauce") is a company dedicated to Oracle system performance. At Oracle Corporation during the 1980s and 1990s, the consultants who became the principals at Hotsos improved performance at many of the largest, most complex Oracle sit

Ixora - Ixora, by Steve Adams, offers a rare depth of knowledge that is invaluable in complex problem diagnosis and resolution.

JL Computer Consultancy - An expert view on the Oracle (tm) database engine

Pro-DBA.com - Oracle consultancy with some free resources

Recruitment

Getting that First Oracle DBA Job

Best International - We deliver a range of services across both permanent and contract recruitment, and we specialise in telecoms, PC network support, PC development, business analysis, project management, Oracle, computer security and CRM/ERP amongst others.

Computer Futures - IT Recruitment Company

Computer People - Computer People was established in 1972 and has expanded rapidly by organic growth and acquisition to become Europe's largest and most successful IT Recruitment consultancy. We have evolved as one of the core companies within the $16 Billion Adecco Organi

Elan - Providing specialist IT recruitment services to find the best jobs for our applicants and the right solutions for our clients.

Jobserve.com - Jobserve is the most successful recruitment site of its kind. IT Recruitment agencies send us details of their latest requirements and we post the details onto our web site and keep them there for 5 working days. We also generate a neatly formatted list o

Oracle Jobs - Orca - Orca is an Oracle Job and information site for Oracle Professionals based in the UK and Europe. We have combined a comprehensive job site with a wide range of information including Oracle Related web sites including, Oracle Training Courses, Certification

Oracle Jobs - TechnoJobs - Hundreds of UK and Europe Oracle jobs advertised online.

OracleCareers.com - OracleCareers.com has been developed to provide a single, convenient, and effective way for Oracle Professionals and Employers to meet.

Progressive - Founded in 1990, Progressive IT Recruitment has an exceptional record of placing IT Professionals in both the contract and permanent markets throughout the UK and Europe.