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Through hands-on experience in administering an oracle 9i Database you can understand the Oracle Server architecture, expand the size of the database, implement security, and know why and how specific database administration tasks are performed.

Prerequisites:
  • Knowledge of SQL
  • Introduction to Oracle 9i SQL and SQL *Plus course or equivalent experience
  • Introduction to oracle 9i PL/SQL course or equivalent experience is highly recommended.
Introduction and Duties of the DBA:
  • Oracle RDBMS Components
  • DBA Responsibilities
Tables, Constraints and Indexes:
  • Introduction to Datatypes and Tables
  • Integrity Constraints
  • Temporary tables, partitioned tables (range, hash, list), external tables, IOTs
  • Indexes and Skip Scanning
  • Online reorganisation
  • Database workspace management
Other Database Schema Objects:
  • DDL Commands used
  • Views, Materialised views
  • Sequences, Synonyms, Database Links
  • Outlines, Dimensions, Hierarchies
  • PL/SQL Program Units
  • Supplied Packages
  • Oracle Data Dictionary
  • Storage of Large Objects (BFILEs, BLOBs, CLOBs)
Starting and Stopping the Database:
  • What Tool to Use?
  • Connecting as a Privileged User
  • Password file authentication
  • Starting and Shutting Down a Database
  • Reading the Alert Log / Trace Files
  • Quiescing the database
  • SPFILE / Parameter management
How Space is Physically Consumed - Blocks and Extents:
  • Basic Definitions
  • Blocks & Extents
  • Fragmentation / Deallocation
  • How Space is Logically Consumed - Segments:
  • Introduction to Segments
  • Managing Undo Segments
  • Automatic Undo Management
  • Managing sort activity, and Data and Index Segments
  • Monitoring database segments
Managing Tablespaces - Default behavior of CREATE TABLESPACE command:
  • Tablespace Overview
  • System Tablespace
  • Types of Tablespaces
  • Creating additional tablespaces
  • Altering tablespaces
  • Temporary Tablespaces
  • Tablespace Quotas
  • Monitoring Tablespaces
Basic Oracle Architecture:
  • Architecture Overview
  • Database and Process structures
  • Memory structures - SGA, PGA
  • Alternative configurations
Oracle Database Files:
  • Basic Structures of an Oracle RDBMS
  • Data Files, Redo Log Files
  • Archived Redo Log Files
  • Control Files, Oracle-Managed Files (OMF)
Users and Security:
  • Managing Database Users
  • System and Object Privilages
  • Managing Roles, Profiles and Passwords
  • Resource Manager
  • The Virtual Private Database
Oracle DBA Tools:
  • OEM Configuration and Console
  • Oracle Management Server Configuration, and Other OEM Console Tools
  • Apache Server
  • ORADIM
  • Universal Installer
Creating an Oracle Database:
  • Benefits of OFA
  • Planning a database
  • Creating a Database
  • The CREATE DATABASE Command
  • Using the Database Configuration Assistant
Oracle Auditing:
  • Types of Auditing
  • Establishing an audit trail repository
  • Auditing options, Audit results
PL/SQL Packages for the DBA:
  • DBMS_DDL
  • DBMS_JOB
  • DBMS_PCLXUTIL
  • DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER
  • DBMS_ROWID
  • DBMS_SESSION
  • DBMS_SHARED_POOL
  • DBMS_SPACE
  • DBMS_SPACE_ADMIN
  • DBMS_TTS
  • DBMS_UTILITY
Globalization Support:
  • Character sets supported
  • Choosing a character set
  • Multi-byte character sets
  • National Language Support (NLS)
  • Defining time zones
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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