Alex Vickers

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About Alex Vickers

Database Administrator with more than 10 years experience in Sybase, SQLServer and Oracle technologies. Believe DBA work should be 90% problem prevention but take pride in identifying and resolving other issues quickly though with an eye to the longer-term solution when necessary.My motto is: To Protect and Serve - Protect the Database, Serve the Business- Technical Skills Summary -• Databases: Sybase ASE v10.0.2.x, 11.0.3.x, 11.5.1, 11.9.2.x, 12.0.0.x, 12.5+, 15.0+; Sybase Replication v11.5, 12.0, 12.5, 12.6; Oracle v5, 6, 7, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g; MS SQLServer Sybase IQ v12.5, 12.6• Operating Systems: Solaris, Redhat Linux, AIX, Digital Unix, DEC Ultrix.• Application Software: Financial/Banking s/w, Remedy, Peoplesoft (on Oracle & Sybase), GIS s/w.• Admin Software: SQLBacktrack for Sybase, isql, DBArtisan, Sybase Central, sqlplus, OEM, toad, ControlM, Autosys, Sysgem, CVS, Clearcase, various unix tools including crontab, perl & shell scripts. Tivoli, Patrol & HPOV monitoring s/w.• Languages: Work: C, Perl, Bourne, Korn and C Shell Scripting, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, Sybase Transact SQL. University: Lisp, FORTAN, Pascal.