If anyone wants to join and add their knowledge to the site

I assume that everyone does approximately the same things on servers.

Therefore, if you work professionally with Oracle or plan to do so, you can contribute to filling the site with new knowledge.

You can run the entire site on your linux virtual machine in just a few commands and use it as a knowledge base.

If you add your knowledge to the common pool, it may help some other Oracle DBA, or you yourself can refer to it when needed. Notes are gradually being corrected and getting better and better.

Perhaps your solution needs to be reviewed by other specialists. Perhaps they can point out weak points in the solution. Such solutions are better discussed with colleagues in advance than to make a mistake on a real project.

If, for example, you are studying a professional video course or reading professional literature and have found something useful primarily for yourself and want to write it down somewhere so as not to forget later. You can write it down on this site.


So, how to add information to the site

The site uses jekyll technology and is entirely hosted on github.

Text usually does not require markup. Therefore it looks better than HTML in an editor.

To work, you need a basic knowledge of git. It is enough to know about 10 commands, such as clone, add, push data to the repository.

Initially, a pull request is accepted into the master branch. Then it is applied to the gh-pages repository, the contents of which are displayed on the site pages. To apply changes, approval from the repository owner is required.

If someone really needs instructions, I will describe them in more detail.


Why do I need this, how will it help my career?

You can try to post your resume, get recommendations as a contributor. Sometimes projects require more than one person, but several. We can somehow jointly organize searches as a group of specialists. Maybe even on foreign sites.

The added material is attributed to the person who added it. You can leave your email, twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc.

For each edit, if desired (if it is not a grammatical error), it can be noted who fixed it and what was fixed.

Maybe this will help someone improve their resume or something else.

  • A knowledge base of errors and how to fix them is also being collected. If something is not working and you want to leave an error message, for now also through pull requests.

Maybe some other options?


Maybe some additional perks?

Why not? Maybe some materials that are hard to find can be exchanged between participants.

Maybe some patches from metalink (I no longer have access to it) someone can get and share with those in need.

Some materials from closed conferences, corporate seminars, etc. (You can find anything from departed employees. :)))


What is needed most right now?

What is missing is a proper document on setting up a logical STANDBY server.

If you have such information, it would be useful.
I myself cannot find time for research yet. Of course, if there is a project, I will write about it. But if someone already has such a task assigned and is ready to share the results, it would save me a lot of time when I need it.