Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II (5 days)

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II Course Overview

One of the most challenging tasks ever presented to database administrators is that of recovery from failure, especially if the recovery must not result in a loss of any data. This course presents all the standard failure scenarios and the best recovery strategies for each. Strategies for on-line backups, complete and incomplete recovery, media recovery vs. flashback database recovery and many other subjects are discussed. Extensive exercises allow students to simulate failures and perform actual recovery within the workshop.

Additionally, some of the most exciting new technologies ever released by Oracle are considered within this course. Subjects like the Database Scheduler, Flashback operations, Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and many others are included. This course book is filled with in-depth conceptual diagrams, hundreds of actual code examples, detailed exercises and complete solutions.

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II Course Goals

• Learn to use flashback technology to recover from user errors and from database failures.
• Learn to control resource utilization on database servers whose resource demand exceeds its capacity.
• Learn to automate routine tasks and functions using the database Scheduler.
• Learn to handle database corruption and prevent such occurrences wherever possible.
• Learn to use diagnostic sources in troubleshooting database problems.
• Learn to automate database management, monitoring and tuning facilities.
• Learn to automate management of storage space and memory resources within the database.
• Learn to automate resumption of database operations even in the face of failures and errors.
• Learn about user-managed and automatically managed backup strategies and database recovery operations.

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Basic Oracle database administration as taught in our level I course.

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II Course Outline

1. Oracle Flashback Technology
   1. About Flashback Technology
   2. Flashback Query
   3. SELECT...AS of Timestamp
   4. SELECT...AS of SCN
   5. Flashback Table
   6. Flashback Versions Query
   7. Flashback Transaction Query
   8. Guarantee Undo Retention
2. Managing Resources
   1. Database Resource Manager Architecture
   2. Consumer Groups
   3. Resource Plans
   4. Automatic & Adaptive Consumer Group Mapping
   5. Enabling & Monitoring the Resource Manager
   6. Explicit Consumer Group Switching
3. Automating Tasks With the Database Scheduler (Basic)
   1. Scheduler Architecture
   2. Manage Programs
   3. Manage Schedules
   4. Manage Jobs
4. Automating Tasks with the Database Scheduler (Advanced)
   1. Manage Job Classes
   2. Manage Windows & Window Groups
   3. Manage Chains
   4. About Events & the Scheduler
5. Handling Database Corruption
   1. About Database Corruption
   2. Db_Block_Checksum
   3. Analyze...Validate Structure
   4. Dbverify
   5. Using Dbms_Repair()
6. Diagnostic Sources
   1. More About the Trace & Alert Files
   2. Diagnostic Highlights From EM
   3. Configuring the Alert Log
   4. Managing Policies
7. Securing the Oracle Listener
   1. Managing & Monitoring the Listener
   2. Secure the Listener
   3. Secure External Procedure Calls
8. Monitoring & Managing Memory
   1. Automatic Shared Memory Management
   2. Using EM & the Memory Advisors
   3. Monitor In Memory Access Mode
9. Monitoring & Managing Storage
   1. About Resumable Space Allocation
   2. Table Management
   3. Using the Segment Advisor
10. Managing Redo Log Storage & Monitoring Instance Recovery
    1. About Redo Data
    2. Tune Redo Writing & Archiving
    3. More About Instance Recovery
    4. Log_Checkpoints_To_Alert
11. Flashback Database
    1. About Flashback Database
    2. Configuring the Flash Recovery Area
    3. Performing Database Flashback
    4. Monitoring Flashback Performance
    5. Flashback Database Considerations
12. Configuring RMAN
    1. About Database Backup & Recovery Structures
    2. RMAN Architecture
    3. Launch & Use RMAN
    4. Configure RMAN
    5. Allocate RMAN Channels
13. Backup with RMAN
    1. About Backup File Types
    2. Performing Full Backups
    3. Performing Incremental Backups
    4. Establishing a Backup Retention Policy
    5. Generate Catalog Reports
    6. Report Unrecoverable
    7. Report Need Backup
    8. Report Schema
    9. List Incarnation
14. Backup with RMAN Using EM
    1. Monitoring the Flash Recovery Area
    2. About EM & RMAN
    3. Scheduling Backups with RMAN
    4. Manage Current Backups
    5. Backup Reports
    6. Manage Restore Points
15. Non-Critical Recovery Operations
    1. About the Recovery Process
    2. Recover Temporary Tablespaces
    3. Recover Read-Only Tablespaces
    4. Recover Index Tablespaces
    5. Recover Redo Log Group Member
    6. Recreate the Password File
16. Database Recovery Operations
    1. Control File Recovery
    2. Complete Media Recovery
    3. Incomplete Media Recovery
    4. Performing Block Media Recovery
    5. Recovery Using EM
17. Automatic Storage Management
    1. ASM and the Broader Database Architecture
    2. Defining an ASM Instance
    3. Configuring Storage In the ASM Instance
18. Globalization Support Objectives (if time allows)
    1. Globalization Settings
    2. Nls_Lang
    3. Nls_Language & Nls_Territory
    4. Date & Time Localization
    5. Linguistic Indexes
    6. About Locale Builder

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II Course Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples.

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Level II Course Technical Requirements and Setup Instructions

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