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Oracle Database 11g:  Administration Workshop I

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Exploring the Oracle Database Architecture

  • Oracle Database Architecture Overview
  • Interacting with an Oracle Database
  • Process Architecture
  • Database Storage Architecture
  • Logical and Physical Database Structures
  • Tablespaces and Data Files
  • SYSTEM and SYSAUX Tablespaces
  • Segments, Extents, and Blocks

Preparing the Database Environment

  • Tasks of an Oracle Database Administrator
  • Tools Used to Administer an Oracle Database
  • Installation: System Requirements
  • Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA)
  • Setting Environment Variables
  • Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)
  • Database Configuration Options
  • Advanced Installation Options

Create an Oracle Database

  • Planning the Database
  • Configuring the Listener
  • Using the DBCA to Create a Database
  • Password Management
  • Creating a Database Design Template
  • Using the DBCA to Delete a Database
  • Using DBCA For Additional Tasks

Managing the Oracle Instance

  • Management Framework
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • Initialization Parameter
  • Database Startup and Shutdown
  • Shutdown Modes
  • Viewing the Alert History
  • Using Trace Files
  • Data Dictionary: Overview

Configuring the Oracle Network Environment

  • Oracle Net Services & Listener
  • Establishing Net Connections
  • Tools for Configuring and Managing the Oracle Network
  • Net Services Administration Pages
  • Naming Methods
  • Directory Naming
  • SGA and PGA
  • When Not to Use a Shared Server

Managing Database Storage Structures

  • Storage Structures
  • How Table Data Is Stored
  • Anatomy of a Database Block
  • Space Management in Tablespaces
  • Tablespaces in the Preconfigured Database
  • Actions with Tablespaces
  • Oracle Managed Files (OMF)
  • ASM: Concepts

Administering User Security

  • Database User Accounts
  • Predefined Accounts: SYS and SYSTEM
  • Administrator Authentication
  • Benefits of Roles
  • Predefined Roles
  • Implementing Password Security Features
  • Assigning Quota to Users

Managing Schema Objects

  • What Is a Schema?
  • Accessing Schema Objects
  • Specifying Data Types in Tables
  • Creating and Modifying Tables
  • Understanding Data Integrity
  • Indexes & Views
  • Sequences
  • Temporary Tables

Managing Data and Concurrency

  • Manipulating Data Through SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • Administering PL/SQL Objects
  • Functions, Procedures, Packages & Triggers
  • Data Concurrency
  • Enqueue Mechanism
  • Resolving Lock Conflicts Using SQL
  • Deadlocks

Managing Undo Data

  • Data Manipulation
  • Transactions and Undo Data
  • Undo Data Versus Redo Data
  • Configuring Undo Retention
  • Guaranteeing Undo Retention
  • Using the Undo Advisor
  • Viewing System Activity

Implementing Oracle Database Security

  • Industry Security Requirements
  • Principle of Least Privilege
  • Monitoring for Compliance
  • Value-Based Auditing
  • Fine-Grained Auditing
  • DBA Auditing
  • Security Updates
  • Applying Security Patches

Database Maintenance

  • Introducing Terminology
  • Optimizer Statistics
  • Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
  • Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
  • Advisory Framework
  • Automated Maintenance Tasks
  • Server-Generated Alerts
  • Reacting to Alerts

Performance Management

  • Performance Monitoring
  • Managing Memory Components
  • Enabling Automatic Memory Management (AMM)
  • Automatic Shared Memory Advisor
  • Using Memory Advisors
  • Dynamic Performance Statistics
  • Troubleshooting and Tuning Views
  • Invalid and Unusable Objects

Backup and Recovery Concepts

  • Part of Your Job
  • Statement Failure
  • User Error
  • Understanding Instance Recovery
  • Phases of Instance Recovery
  • Using the MTTR Advisor
  • Media Failure
  • Archive Log Files

Performing Database Backups

  • Backup Solutions: Overview
  • Oracle Secure Backup
  • User-Managed Backup
  • Terminology
  • Recovery Manager (RMAN)
  • Configuring Backup Settings
  • Backing Up the Control File to a Trace File
  • Monitoring the Flash Recovery Area

Performing Database Recovery

  • Opening a Database
  • Data Recovery Advisor
  • Loss of a Control File
  • Loss of a Redo Log File
  • Data Recovery Advisor
  • Data Failures
  • Listing Data Failures
  • Data Recovery Advisor Views

Moving Data

  • Moving Data: General Architecture
  • Directory Object: Overview
  • SQL*Loader: Overview
  • Data Pump: Overview
  • Performance Initialization Parameters
  • Using Enterprise Manager to Monitor Data Pump Jobs
  • Data Dictionary

Enhancing Database Capabilities

  • Using EM Support Workbench
  • Create a Service Request
  • Package and upload diagnostic data to Oracle Support
  • Track the SR and Implement Repairs
  • Incident Packaging Configuration
  • Working with Oracle Support
  • MetaLink Integration
  • Managing Patches