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Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop II

 

 

Class times are from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.

 

What you will learn:

 

 

This course advances your success as an Oracle professional in the area of database administration. In this class, you'll learn how to configure an Oracle database for multilingual applications. You will practice various methods of recovering the database using RMAN and Flashback technology. Database performance monitoring tools will be covered, in addition to the steps to take to resolve common problems and improve performance. You will also learn how to administer a database efficiently by using database technologies such as the Resource Manager, the Scheduler, Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and VLDB features. You will set up a secure database using Virtual Private Database, and learn how to efficiently move data from database to database. The lesson topics are reinforced with structured hands-on practices and a workshop. This course is designed to prepare you for the corresponding Oracle Certified Professional exam.

 

This course counts towards the Hands-on course requirement for the Oracle Database 10g Administrator certification.

                           

Duration : 5 Days

 

Audience:

 

  • Database Administrators
  • Sales Consultants
  • Support Engineer
  • Technical Consultant

 

Prerequisites:

 

  • Knowledge of basic database administration
  • Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I Release 2
  • Oracle Database 10g: SQL and PL/SQL Fundamentals

 

 

Course Objectives:

  • Use RMAN to create and manage backup sets and image copies
  • Recover the database to a previous point in time
  • Use Oracle Secure Backup to backup and recover a database
  • Use Oracle's Flashback technology to recover your database
  • Detect block corruptions and take appropriate measures to correct them
  • Use the various Database advisors and views to monitor and improve database performance
  • Control database resource usage with the Resource Manager
  • Simplify management tasks by using the Scheduler
  • Review database log files for diagnostic purposes
  • Customize language-dependent behavior for the database and individual sessions
  • Administer a VLDB
  • Implement a secure database
  • Transport data across platforms

 

Course Topics:

 

Introduction

Grid Computing

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Product Controls

Database Architecture Review

 

Configuring Recovery Manager

Recovery Manager Features and Components

Using a Flash Recovery Area with RMAN

Configuring RMAN

Control File Autobackups

Retention Policies and Channel Allocation

Using Recovery Manager to connect to a target database in default NOCATALOG mode

Displaying the current RMAN configuration settings

Altering the backup retention policy for a database

 

Using Recovery Manager

RMAN Command Overview

Parallelization of Backup Sets

Compressed Backups

Image Copy

Whole Database and Incremental Backups

LIST and REPORT commands

Enable ARCHIVELOG mode for the database

Use Recovery Manager

 

Oracle Secure Backup

Installation and Configuration

Implement the Oracle suggested strategy

RMAN and Oracle Secure Backup

Database and File-system files backup/restore to tape

Using obtool and web interface to configure Oracle Secure Backup devices (CLI/GUI)

Configuring EM for Oracle Secure Backup and test backup to tape (EM)

Using RMAN to backup your database to tape (CLI)

Using the OB Web tool to backup file system files

 

Recovering from Non-critical Losses

Recovery of Non-Critical Files

Creating New Temporary Tablespace

Recreating Redo Log Files, Index Tablespaces, and Indexes

Read-Only Tablespace Recovery

Authentication Methods for Database Administrators

Loss of Password Authentication File

Creating a new temporary tablespace

Altering the default temporary tablespace for a database

 

Incomplete Recovery

Recovery Steps

Server and User Managed Recovery commands

Recovering a Control File Autobackup

Creating a New Control File

Incomplete Recovery Overview

Incomplete Recovery Best Practices

Simplified Recovery Through RESETLOGS

Point-in-time recovery using RMAN

 

Flashback

Flashback Database Architecture

Configuring and Monitoring Flashback Database

Backing Up the Flash Recovery Area

Using V$FLASH_RECOVERY_AREA_USAGE

Flashback Database Considerations

Using the Flashback Database RMAN interface

Using Flashback Database EM Interface

Managing and monitoring Flashback Database operations

 

Dealing with Database Corruption

Block Corruption Symptoms: ORA-1578

DBVERIFY Utility and the ANALYZE command

Initialization parameter DB_BLOCK_CHECKING

Segment Metadata Dump and Verification

Using Flashback for Logical Corruption and using DBMS_REPAIR

Block Media Recovery

RMAN BMR Interface

Dumping and Verifying Segment Metadata

 

Monitoring and Managing Memory

Oracle Memory Structures

Automatic Shared Memory Management

SGA Tuning Principles

Database Control and Automatic Shared Memory Management

Behavior of Auto-Tuned and Manual SGA Parameters

Resizing SGA_TARGET

PGA Management Resources

Using the Memory Advisor

 

Automatic Performance Management

Identifying Tunable Components

Oracle Wait Events and System Statistics

Troubleshooting and Tuning Views

Direct Attach to SGA for Statistic Collection

Workload Repository

Advisory Framework

ADDM Scenarios and Usage Tips

Using the SQL Tuning and SQL Access Advisor

 

Monitoring and Managing Storage I

Database Storage Structures

Space Management Overview

Oracle-Managed Files (OMF)

Row Chaining and Migrating

Proactive Tablespace Monitoring

Managing Resumable Space Allocation

SYSAUX Tablespace

Monitoring table and index space usage

 

Monitoring and Managing Storage II

Automatic Undo Management

Redo Log Files

Table Types

Partitioned Tables

Index-Organized Tables (IOT)

Managing index space with SQL

Configure optimal redo log file size

View “Automatic Tuning of Undo Retention”

 

Automatic Storage Management

ASM General Architecture and Functionalities

Dynamic Performance View Additions

Managing an ASM Instance

ASM Disk Groups

Using asmcmd Command Line

Migrating Your Database to ASM Storage

Creating an ASM instance in a separate Oracle Home

Migrating a tablespace to use ASM storage

 

VLDB Support

Creating Bigfile Tablespaces

Packages and data dictionary changes to support VLDB

Creating and maintaining temporary tablespace groups (TTG)

Partitioning and Partitioned Indexes

Skipping unusable indexes

Creating and using hash-partitioned global indexes

DML Error Logging

Interpreting Bigfile ROWIDs

 

Managing Resources

Database Resource Manager Concepts and Configuration

Creating a New Resource Plan

Active Session Pool Mechanism

Maximum Estimated Execution Time

Creating a Complex Plan

Administering and Monitoring Resource Manager

Resource Plan Directives

Creating Resource Consumer Groups

 

Automating Tasks with the Scheduler

Scheduler Concepts

Creating a Job Class and a Window

Managing Jobs, Programs, Chains, Events, Schedules, priority

Viewing and Purging Job Logs

Creating a program and a schedule

Creating a job that uses a program and a schedule

Altering the program and schedule for the job and observing the behavior change of the job

Monitoring job runs

 

Database Security

Virtual Private Database: Overview

Creating a Column-Level Policy

Writing a Policy Function

Policy Types

Column level VPD with column masking

Transparent Data Encryption

Setting the listener password

Implement VPD

 

Data Movement

External Tables Concepts

Creating a Directory object and External Table

Data Pump

Transport Database

RMAN CONVERT DATABASE Command

Transport Tablespace

Create a Directory Object

Create a Temporary Table

 

Using Globalization Support

Globalization Support Features

Encoding Schemes

Database Character Sets and National Character Sets

Specifying Language-Dependent Behavior

Locale Variants

Using Linguistic Comparison and Sorting

Data Conversion Between Client and Server Character Sets

Determining the Default NLS Settings

 

Workshop

Workshop Methodology, requirements, and setup

Scenario 1: Database performance

Scenario 2: Finding and Tuning Inefficient SQL

Scenario 3: SGA Management - REDO

Scenario 4: Running out of Undo Space

Scenario 5: Missing datafile

Scenario 6: Managing space in a tablespace - REDO

Scenario 7: Missing TEMP data file

 

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