About

Karni Mukunda Rao is an experienced Oracle Database Administrator with over 6 years of hands-on experience in database administration, production support, installation, configuration, upgrades, patches, performance tuning, backup and recovery, cloning, space management, database security, migration, and documentation. He is currently working as a Lead Analyst at CGI, where he is responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of the company's databases. Karni has excellent knowledge of database administration for Oracle 10g, 11g & 12c and has experience working in very large scale database environments. He has worked on Oracle Database Administration in a variety of environments such as HP-UX, SUN SOLARIS, AIX, Red Hat Linux, and Windows. He has installed, upgraded, and configured various Oracle software packages, performed troubleshooting, and development tasks on various platforms. Karni has extensive experience in test, production, and development databases and is proficient in database design for OLTP and OLAP. He has extensive experience in Backup and Recovery of Databases on Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c, and expertise in supporting client-server GUI software and operating systems. He has created development, testing, staging, production, RAC, and standby databases and has extensive experience in Dataguard, Grid control. Karni has hands-on experience in installing and configuring agents on various production servers and has installed Oracle 11g ASM & 10g RAC software with ASM & OCFS2 File systems. He has installed high availability RAC environments (2, 3, and 4 node clusters) and upgraded standalone databases to 10g RAC environments. He has extensive performance tuning experience, specializing in Operating System Tuning, SQL Tuning, Database/Instance Tuning. Karni is proficient in setting up Standby Database using shell scripts and RMAN utility tool, activating and Re-building Standby Databases both Physical and Logical supported by DATAGUARD. He has experience in Hot/Cold Backup, Recovery, and Cloning of databases using RMAN and has implemented RMAN backup (Full, incremental and cumulative) and recovery, Incomplete recovery, and disaster recovery using Standby database or Data Guard. He has also implemented an automated backup strategy using the UNIX shell script. Karni has expertise in maintaining Database Security using security compliance auditing and has experience in applying security patches to the databases. He has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Avanth