Oracle 10g Administration
Oracle's new 10g database leverages the power of grid computing to spread tasks across multiple low-cost machines. Learners will be able to install and maintain an Oracle 10g database in an effective, efficient manner. Topics such as the interaction among Oracle components, an understanding of Oracle's architecture, performance monitoring, database security, user management, and backup and recovery techniques are covered.
This series is for Oracle 10g database administrators who wish to understand Oracle's Optimal Flexible Architecture, Shared Server Architecture, and database interfaces (SQL, Java, C++ and PL/SQL). This online course contains 17 lessons and should take approximately 6 hours to complete.
Oracle Architectural Components
This course provides an overview of the physical, memory, process, and logical structures that make up the Oracle 10g Database Server and teaches you how to describe the stages that the Oracle 10g Database Server goes through in processing an SQL statement, differentiate among a database, an instance and a server, and define the underlying physical, memory, process and logical structures of the Oracle 10g Database Server.
Oracle Server Introduction
This course provides information on Oracle's installation and configuration tools and teaches you how to define the functions of the Oracle Universal Installer, explain Oracle's administration tools, and describe Oracle's configuration assistants.
Database Architecture, Creation, and Interfaces
This course provides an overview of programmatic interfaces within Oracle and different database architectures (shared server vs dedicated server) and teaches you how to differentiate between shared server and dedicated server, define and explain Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and describe the different interfaces to the Oracle kernel.
Database Control and Storage Structures
This course provides information on Oracle 10g's multithreaded agent technology, as well as Oracle's new Recycle Bin and Flashback technologies and teaches you how to describe Oracle's multithreaded agent technology, explain Oracle's listener technology, and define Oracle's Recycle Bin and Flashback technology.
Managing Users and Schemas
This course provides the information you need to create, delete, and manage users, roles, and privileges within Oracle 10g and teaches you how to define the roles of creating, deleting, and managing users, define the creating, deleting, and managing roles, and define the create, delete, and manage privileges.
Data Management
This course provides information pertaining to Oracle SQL*Loader and Data Pump technologies and teaches you how to describe Oracle's SQL*Loader technology, and describe the process used with large-scale data imports and exports using the Data Pump technology.
PL/SQL
This course provides an overview of PL/SQL, information on how to declare PL/SQL variables, understand PL/SQL syntax, and write PL/SQL exception handlers and teaches you how to explain the method used to declare PL/SQL variables, define the PL/SQL syntax, and describe PL/SQL exception handlers.
Database Security Management
This course provides information on Oracle 10g's password file, profile, and auditing technologies and teaches you how to explain how Oracle uses profiles to manage and secure passwords, describe how Oracle uses a password file to secure DBA access, and define how Oracle uses auditing and audit trails to track access to the database.
Oracle Net Services
This course provides information on Oracle's listener and Net Manager technologies and teaches you how to define Oracle Net Manager and Oracle listener technologies.
Oracle Shared Server
This course provides information on Oracle's Shared Server technology and teaches you how to describe Oracle's Shared Server benefits, configuration, and technology.
Database Performance Monitoring
This course provides information on how Oracle gathers and uses statistics to tune and improve its performance and teaches you how to describe Oracle's statistics gathering, tuning, and monitoring.
Database Maintenance
This course provides information on how Oracle 10g establishes alert thresholds and gathers baseline metrics It also explains how to use tuning and diagnostic advisors, as well as the Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) and teaches you how to explain how Oracle establishes alert thresholds, describe how Oracle gathers baseline metrics, define how to use Oracle tuning and diagnostic advisors, and describe Oracle's automatic workload repository.
Database Undo Management
This course explains how to enable and configure Oracle's undo management and flashback technology and teaches you how to explain Oracle's undo management technology, and describe Oracle's flashback technology.
Database Locking Conflicts
This course provides information on Oracle's row and table locking technology, as well as Oracle's deadlock management technology and teaches you how to explain Oracle's row and table locking technology, and describe Oracle's deadlock management technology.
Database Backup and Recovery Concepts
This course provides information on how Oracle performs crash and instance recovery, as well as how Oracle works with redo log files and archived log files and teaches you how to describe Oracle's crash and instance recovery technology, and define how Oracle works with online and archived redo log files.
Database Backups
This course provides information on configuring and using Oracle's Flash Recovery area to assist in performing server-managed (RMAN) database backups and teaches you how to explain how to perform server-managed (RMAN) backups, and define how to configure and use Oracle's Flash Recovery area.
Database Recovery
This course provides information on how to recover information from your databases and how to use Flashback Drop and Flashback Database as alternatives to point-in-time (incomplete) recovery and teaches you how to describe how to use Flashback to perform database recovery.