Oracle Admin

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Oracle Admin

    Module 1: 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

    Module 2: 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

    Module 3: Creating an Oracle Database

      Module 4: 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

      Module 5: 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

      Module 6: 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

      Module 7: 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

      Module 8: 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

      Module 9: 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

      Module 10: 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

      Module 11: 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

      Module 12: 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

      Module 13: 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

      Module 14: Backup and Recovery Concepts

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

      Module 15: 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

      Module 16: 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

      Module 17: 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

      Module 18: 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