Database (Backend) Support Bereans Partners’ main focus in today’s fast growing IT industry is on the clients’ data and hence the Database. Database Security, Integrity, Backup and Recovery, Monitoring, Tuning, Performance, Reorganization, Migration and automation are BereansPa’s specialty. We provide DBA Onsite and DBA Remote services. We have DBA Specialized Packages for improving your database environment. We provide DBA Training for educating your technical staff. Whatever your challenge in the Oracle Database may be - putting a complete end-to-end solution in place or managing one critical task, BereansPa can help. BereansPa provides professional quality database solutions for business applications and the web. We implement robust and adept solutions that integrate seamlessly into your business solution or web application. BereansPa supports proprietary databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Informix and other RDBMS. BereansPa is committed to providing development, installation, and maintenance support for all popular database packages. Today most companies are upgrading to the new robust versions of Oracle as desupport for Oracle 9i is at hand and we have done this dozens of times within the past few months. Call us if there is need for you to upgrade now. Oracle Database Upgrades Upgrading to Oracle 9i or 10g or 11g is challenging. What are the new features? Which of these new features should be implemented in the new version? What current features will be obsolete after the upgrade? How are all the database initialization parameters configured? What if there is a problem during the upgrade—can it be rolled back? Our Oracle experts have performed numerous database upgrades—from Oracle Version 7 to Oracle 10g & 11g — utilizing a proven upgrade methodology. A few key steps are: Reviewing your environment to determine which new features should be enabled, as well as tuning or adjustments that should be made Determining the best upgrade method for your environment (export/import, Oracle assistants, Oracle-supplied scripts) Disabling obsolete database initialization parameters Reviewing & configuring new database initialization parameters Enabling 9i and 10g or 11g new features: Dynamic Memory Management Server parameter files Automatic undo management Automatic segment space management Locally managed tablespaces Default TEMPORARY and DEFAULT tablespaces Automatic statistics collection Confirming that your applications run as efficiently as they did prior to the upgrade (or better) Providing mentoring and recommendations for the new features of the 9i or 10g or 11g database: Flashback capabilities Oracle DataPump Automatic Shared Memory Management Server generated alerts Database Scheduler Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor Online capabilities: table & index rebuilds, space reclamation Automatic Storage Management (ASM) SQL Tuning Advisor And more!