Duration: 5 Days
Through hands-on experience in administering an Oracle 11g database, you will learn a wide variety of advanced concepts to let you fully master administration of an Oracle database. This course includes a thorough discussion of new Oracle11g automation features, including Flashback Technologies, Automated Storage Management, Automated Tuning Tools, and Automated Management Tools such as the new Scheduler.
What You Will Learn
- Configure for globalization support
-
Secure the Oracle listener
-
Configure and use Recovery Manager
-
Identify and use diagnostic information
-
Recover your database
-
How and why to flashback a database
-
Use the new Automation Tools
-
Use the new Performance Tuning Tools
-
Manage database storage
-
Manage memory
-
Manage other database resources
-
Use Scheduler to automate tasks
-
Configure and use Automated Storage Management
Audience
Data analysts, database administrators, systems administrators, network managers, and technical support personnel
Prerequistes
- Knowledge of SQL, the Introduction to Oracle 11g SQL and SQL* Plus
course, or equivalent experience
-
The Introduction to Oracle 11g PL/SQL course or equivalent experience is
highly recommended
Course Outline
1. Recovery Manager Configuration
-
Parameters affecting RMAN
-
Use of a Flashback Recovery Area
-
The CONFIGURE Command
-
Persistent Settings
-
NOCATALOG / CATALOG Mode
-
Catalog Management/Virtual Catalog
-
Channel Allocation
-
Controlfile Autobackup
-
Retention Policies
2. Recovery Manager Operations
-
Using the BACKUP Command
-
Creating Backup Sets/Image Copies
-
Parallelization
-
Compressed Backups
-
Whole Database Copying/Cloning
-
Incremental Backups
-
Block Change Tracking
-
RMAN Backup Monitoring
-
REPORT and LIST Commands
3. Non-Critical Loss Recovery
-
Password and Network Files
-
Read-Only Tablespaces
-
Temporary Tablespaces
-
Index Tablespaces
-
Redo Log Members/Control Files
4. Database Recovery
-
Recovering the Control File
-
Reasons for Incomplete Recovery
-
Recovery after RESETLOGS
-
Incomplete Recovery using EM
-
Incomplete Recovery using RMAN
-
Incomplete Recovery using SQL
5. Flashback Database
-
When to Use
-
Configuration and Use
-
Monitoring Flashback Database
-
Using EM for Flashback Database
-
Flash Recovery Area Maintenance
-
Flash Recovery Area Monitoring
6. User Error Recovery
-
The New Recycle Bin
-
Flashback a Dropped Table using EM
-
Querying Dropped Tables
-
Flashback Versions Query
-
Flashback Transaction Query
7. Block Corruption Management
-
DBVERIFY and ANALYZE
-
DBMS_REPAIR
-
Block Media Recovery
-
DBMS_BLOCK_CHECKING Parameter
-
Using RMAN for Block Corruption
8. Automatic Database Management
-
Management and Advisory Framework
-
Automatic Statistics Collection
-
The Automated Workload Repository
-
Database Advisors
-
SQL Tuning Advisors
-
SQL Access Advisors
-
Active Session History (ASH)
-
Automatic Statistics Collection
-
Automatic Undo Retention
-
Adjusting Thresholds/Managed Metrics
9. Automatic Storage Management
-
ASM Architecture
-
ASM Initialization Parameters
-
ASM Filenames in SQL commands
-
ASM Tablespaces
-
Disk Groups/Failure Groups
-
ASM Startup/Shutdown/ASMCMD
-
ASM Disk Group Administration
10. Globalization Support
-
Timezones and Datetimes
-
Language Dependent Behavior
-
Locales and Variants
-
Case and Accent Insensitive Sorts
-
Linguistic Sorting
-
Querying GS Configuration
11. Resource Management
-
Resource Manager Configuration
-
Resource Consumer Groups
-
Resource Plans and Directives
-
Directives for Resource Allocation
-
Adaptive Consumer Group Mapping
-
Enabling and Switching Plans
12. Scheduler
-
Creating Jobs and Job Classes
-
Creating Schedules and Windows
-
Scheduler Programs
-
Prioritizing Jobs
-
Scheduler Component Reuse
-
Query Scheduler Information
13. Storage Management
-
Tuning Archiving
-
Redo Log Size Advisor
-
Segment Advisor
-
Managing Resumable Operations
-
Proactive Tablespace Management
-
Table/Index Size Estimation
-
Optimizing Storage Options
-
Online Index Rebuilds
14. Listener Security
-
Password Authentication
-
Securing EXTPROC
-
Controlling Access
15. Diagnostic Sources
-
Alert Logs and Trace Files
-
Enterprise Manager and Alerts
-
Controlling Trace File Size
-
Alert Notification
16. Memory Management
-
Memory Structures
-
Automatic Shared Memory Management
-
SGA configuration/SGA_TARGET
-
Automatic PGA Memory Management
-
The Memory Advisor
17. Performance Tuning
-
Application Identification
-
Enterprise Manager Tools
-
SQL Tuning Advisor
-
SQL Access Advisor
-
DBMS_SQLTUNE
-
DBMS_ADVISIOR
-
Quick Tune
18. The Virtual Private Database
Course Labs
Lab 1: Recovery Manager Configuration
Lab 2. Recovery Manager Backups
Lab 3: Database Recovery using RMAN
Lab 4: Flashback Database
Lab 5: Flashback for User Errors
Lab 6. Dealing with Block Corruption
Lab 7: Automated Management Tools
Lab 8: Using the Scheduler
Lab 9: Managing Storage
Lab 10: Scheduler
Lab 11: Listener Security
Lab 12: Diagnostic Sources
Lab 13: Oracle Auditing
Lab 14: Performance Tuning