About me

My name is Gerald Venzl, I’m an Austrian and this is my personal blog. Well it’s personal but most of the entries will be Oracle related. Currently I’m working as a Performance Engineer and DBA in an international company at the finance sector in Manhattan/New York. But a story has always to start at the beginning and not in the middle (except Star Wars! ). As this blog is Oracle related I think it’s the best to start with my introduction to Oracle. For some years ago I started my carrier as PL/SQL and Centura (also known as Sql*Windows and Gupta) programmer. So that was my introduction to Oracle. I was part of a small developer team which build a so called ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) program. Over time I got the task of the DBA there as well (because of the small team size). Interested about Oracle and how that stuff works I tried to gain more and more knowledge about it (and also now). It doesn’t took long and I started to read papers, websites and blogs about Oracle performance as well. That was the point where I also got the role of the performance engineer in that company. All performance related problems became my tasks. It didn’t took long and I was really banned about performance and how to optimize code and the database. Fortunately I found exact that position 2007 in the company where I’m now. In October 2009 I got the opportunity to move from the Austrian office over to Manhattan/New York. As Performance Engineer on application and database side I’m daily confronted with that stuff. Now you maybe wonder why I’ve also the task of the DBA there. Well, to know how you can tune the database you have to know the database really really good. And if you know the database in that detail you’re a perfect candidate for an DBA. And as we don’t have any production databases this part doesn’t need an extra position in the company.