Home-made poster made from a composite of some magazine ads (sources long-forgotten), and one of my Wal-Mart associate buttons (circa 1986).

Other great DBA sites...

April Sims' Blog

The Lazy DBA

Underground Oracle FAQ's

When Larry's not doing DBA stuff, he's writing songs. Hear the tracks from his debut album at soundclick.com. Larry helps lead the praise songs, in cooperation with the sponsor, Taylor University, at the informal worship service held on Sunday morning at each SunGard Summit.

Larry Holder's DBA Page

Anything found here is provided in good faith on an as-is, use at your own risk basis, without warranty. And, of course, always test first on a non-production database. Duh!

Larry Holder
IT Administrator IV
Oracle/Banner Database Administrator since 1997
The University of Tennessee at Martin

Banner from SunGard Higher Education

Community Source Initiative... As announced at Summit 2009, the Community Source initative intends to identify and incorporate some user-written stuff into baseline Banner. SunGard asked me to serve on the steering committee, as well as serve as lead on the technical review board (along with several other prominent Banner DBA's and such). By the way, the "nosleep" triggers, which I put into the CSI process, were announced for release in Banner baseline on/around June 30, 2010.

Trigger Writing for Fun and Profit... Presented at several Summit and SETA conferences. Click here for the most recent PPT.

Printing front-end simplifies Banner printing... A great printer command front-end developed by Morris Galloway Jr. of Presbyterian College. We use this as the basis for Banner printing to our HP and Lexmark laser printers. Simplifies the task of printing Banner reports in landscape, by automatically adding the proper printer control command string for orientation, print size, etc, to the beginning of the output. With a very small edit to gjajobs.shl, and minimal customization for our local setup, it has worked great for years. Click here for original zip file plus additional examples.

My tool of choice for full-screen database access is PL/SQL Developer from Allround Automations.