About Me


I am Raunak Vishwanath Das and I have been working as an Oracle Database Administrator for the last 12 years.

I have worked in the following areas extensively.

Oracle 10g,11g,12cR1,12cR2,18c,19c Database

Backup & Recovery using RMAN

Datapump

Dataguard

Real Application Clusters

Performance Tuning

Enterprise Manager

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