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Oracle Database 11g Administration: Hands-On

Course: 927 Type: Hands-On Training Duration: 4 Days

You Will Learn How To

Create, maintain and support Oracle 11g databases and instances
Automate database administration tasks with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control
Provide transaction support and flashback capability with UNDO tablespaces
Control user access and ensure database security through privileges and roles
Employ effective storage management to maximize space usage
Partition large tables and indexes to ease administration and improve performance

Course Benefits

Oracle 11g is designed to handle the ever-increasing data needs of modern organizations. Effective management of Oracle 11g capabilities can help organizations ensure the integrity and security of data. In this hands-on course, you maximize the features of Oracle 11g to build and maintain databases, configure memory and storage for optimal performance, and manage large amounts of data.

Who Should Attend

Database administrators, developers with data management responsibilities and others involved in the management or deployment of Oracle 11g databases. Course 926, "Oracle Database 11g Comprehensive Introduction," or equivalent experience is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Extensive hands-on exercises using both GUI tools and SQL*Plus provide you with the practical skills to administer an Oracle 11g database. Exercises include:

Building an Oracle database
Troubleshooting with automated alerts
Managing tablespaces with different block sizes
Maintaining UNDO tablespaces and retention periods to enable and perform flashback operations
Securing data by controlling user access with privileges and roles
Monitoring and optimizing space usage
Setting up and maintaining partitioned objects

Course 927 Content

Introduction to Oracle Database 11g Administration

Your responsibilities as an Oracle 11g DBA

Configuring the instance and database
Maintaining security
Balancing user requirements and resources
Ensuring database availability

The Oracle 11g architecture

Processing transactions with the server
Identifying types of Oracle 11g processes and memory structures
Determining database file structure
Archiving redo log information
Sizing the Result Cache for optimizing repeated queries

Building an Oracle 11g Database

Creating the database

Setting the initialization parameters
Simplifying memory allocation with memory targets
Establishing network connectivity
Converting from text-based to server parameter files
Configuring control files and redo log files

Starting and stopping the database

Mounting and opening the database with SQL*Plus
Authenticating connections having SYSDBA privilege
Closing the database and shutting down the instance

Automating Database Management

The Oracle Enterprise Manager architecture

Navigating the graphical interface
Comparing command-line and graphical techniques

Administering with Database Control

Equipping Database Control to manage additional databases
Setting thresholds and generating alerts
Verifying changes in the data dictionary
Performing privilege management

Performing Flashback Operations

Managing space for rollback and read consistency

Configuring UNDO tablespaces
Monitoring expansion of rollback segments
Swapping to an alternative UNDO tablespace

Resetting data to recent points in time with flashback

Tracking changes to data values with row history
Obtaining transaction history with Flashback Transaction
Performing efficient recovery of data with Flashback Table
Retrieving dropped tables and dependent objects from the recycle bin

Securing the Database

Establishing user accounts

Authenticating users with sophisticated password checking
Allocating space quotas for user schemas
Limiting resource usage through profiles

Enforcing security

Granting and revoking system and object privileges
Simplifying privilege management with roles
Preventing changes to read-only tables

Controlling Database Storage

Defining logical and physical structures

Creating, altering, and dropping tablespaces
Handling sort data efficiently with temporary tablespaces
Comparing traditionally managed and Oracle-managed files

Configuring storage patterns for database objects

Structuring data and index segments
Sizing database objects by defining extents and block occupancy
Eliminating row migration with PCTFREE and Data Pump
Compressing table data to conserve storage
Shrinking tables and indexes online to regain space

Partitioning to Support Administration and Availability

Creating table partitions and subpartitions

Selecting partitioning methods: range, list, hash, interval
Partitioning tables based on virtual columns
Setting up automatic partition allocation
Referencing the partitioning method in child tables
Administering partitions with merge, split, add and drop

Maintaining index partitions

Maximizing performance with local and global indexes
Monitoring index partition usage
Rebuilding unusable indexes

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Oracle Database 11g Administration: Hands-On

Upcoming Dates

Oct 21 - 24, 2008
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Mar 3 - 6, 2009
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Course Tuition

$ 2,790	Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800	10-Day Pass
$ 1,670	Training Passport
$ 1,700	Premium-Pass
$ 2,200	Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515	Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484	Government Discount

Participants tracking changes to data with Oracle 11g Flashback Transaction.

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