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Oracle Health Check

A senior Oracle DBA spends a week in your estate: RMAN, Data Guard, patching, performance, and security, with findings ranked by risk.

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Duration1 week
Your timeAbout 2 hours
Changes to your environmentNone
PricingSet on the scope call

What you get

  • RMAN validation, plus a real restore testBackup configuration reviewed and one agreed database restored to an isolated target, because RMAN success messages are not the same as recoverability.
  • Data Guard and DR postureStandby health, lag, failover readiness, and whether the runbook matches what the configuration would actually do.
  • Patch and version exposureWhere the estate sits against current Release Updates and CPUs, and what the gap actually exposes.
  • Performance review from AWR/ASHTop SQL, contention, and memory findings from your own workload history, not synthetic benchmarks.
  • Security and prioritized remediationPrivileged accounts, auditing, and encryption posture, then everything ranked into a fix-order your team can execute.

What we need from you

  • Read-only access, or AWR/ASH exports and configuration output from our collection scripts.
  • Your current patch and support position (a screenshot of My Oracle Support entitlements helps).
  • Access to a restore target for the RMAN restore test.

Timeline

Days 1–2

Kickoff and collection: configuration, backup history, standby status, workload snapshots.

Days 3–4

Analysis and the restore test. Severe findings get raised immediately.

Day 5

Written report and live walkthrough.

Who it's for, and who it isn't

A fit if
  • Oracle runs something critical and the person who set it up is gone.
  • You suspect the standby has quietly stopped keeping up.
  • An upgrade or migration is coming and you need a truthful baseline.
Not a fit if
  • You need a formal Oracle license audit defense. We flag obvious licensing exposure when we see it, but that engagement belongs with a licensing specialist.
  • The estate is being decommissioned this quarter. Spend the money on the migration instead.

Sample deliverable: table of contents

  1. 1 · Executive summary
  2. 2 · Estate inventory and versions
  3. 3 · Backup and restore-test results (RMAN)
  4. 4 · Data Guard / DR posture
  5. 5 · Patch exposure
  6. 6 · Performance findings (AWR/ASH)
  7. 7 · Security findings and remediation plan

Common questions

Is the review safe for a production estate?

Yes. Collection is read-only using standard Oracle tooling (AWR, ASH, configuration views), and the RMAN restore test goes to an isolated target. Nothing is patched, changed, or restarted.

Which versions do you cover?

Oracle 12c through 23ai, single instance or multi-server. Older versions get reviewed too, and their support exposure is documented as a finding rather than quietly ignored.

Do you check licensing compliance?

We flag obvious exposure when we see it, like enabled options you may not be licensed for, because you should hear it from us first. A formal license audit defense is a different discipline, and we will say so rather than play-act it.

Can you fix what you find?

Yes, as scoped remediation work or through the Remote DBA retainer, where senior Oracle depth is one of the rarer things we offer. The report is yours regardless of what follows.

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Fifteen minutes to scope it and set the fixed fee. Senior Oracle attention is hard to find; this is a cheap way to borrow some.

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