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Oracle Database Course Content

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Exploring the Oracle Database Architecture

• Explain the Memory Structures
• Describe the Process Structures
• Overview of Storage Structures

Preparing the Database Environment

• Identify the tools for Administering an Oracle Database
• Plan an Oracle Database installation
• Install the Oracle software by using Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)

Creating an Oracle Database

• Create a database by using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA)

Managing the Oracle Instance

• Setting database initialization parameters
• Describe the stages of database startup and shutdown
• Using alert log and trace files
• Using data dictionary and dynamic performance views

Configuring the Oracle Network Environment

• Configure and Manage the Oracle Network
• Using the Oracle Shared Server architecture

Managing Database Storage Structures

• Overview of table space and data files
• Create and manage table spaces
• Space management in table spaces

Administering User Security

• Create and manage database user accounts
• Grant and revoke privileges
• Create and manage roles
• Create and manage profiles

Managing Data and Concurrency

• Monitor and resolve locking conflicts

Managing Data and Concurrency

• Overview of Undo
• Transactions and undo data
• Managing undo

Managing Data and Concurrency

• Use and manage optimizer statistics
• Use and manage Automatic Workload Repository (AWR)
• Use advisory framework
• Manage Alerts and Thresholds

Performance Management

• Use Automatic Memory Management
• Use Memory Advisors
• Troubleshoot invalid and unusable objects

Backup and Recovery Concepts

• Identify the types of failure that can occur in an Oracle database
• Describe ways to tune instance recovery
• Identify the importance of checkpoints, redo log files, and archived log files
• Overview of flash recovery area
• Configure ARCHIVELOG mode

Performing Database Backups

• Create consistent database backups
• Back up your database without shutting it down
• Create incremental backups
• Automate database backups
• Manage backups, view backup reports and monitor the flash recovery area

Performing Database Recovery

• Overview of Data Recovery Advisor
• Use Data Recovery Advisor to Perform recovery (Control file, Redo log file and Data file)

Moving Data

• Describe and use methods to move data (Directory objects, SQL*Loader, External Tables)
• Explain the general architecture of Oracle Data Pump
• Use Data Pump Export and Import to move data between Oracle databases

Configuring for Recoverability

• Configure multiple archive log file destinations to increase availability
• Define, apply and use a retention policy
• Configure the Flash Recovery Area
• Use Flash Recovery Area

Using the RMAN Recovery Catalog

• Identify situations that require RMAN recovery catalog
• Create and configure a recovery catalog
• Synchronize the recovery catalog
• Create and Use RMAN stored scripts
• Back up the recovery catalog
• Create and use a virtual private catalog

Configuring Backup Specifications

• Configure backup settings
• Allocate channels to use in backing up
• Configure backup optimization

Using RMAN to Create Backups

• Create image file backups
• Create a whole database backup
• Enable fast incremental backup
• Create duplex backup and back up backup sets
• Create a multi section, compressed and encrypted backup
• Report on and maintain backups

Using RMAN to Perform Recovery

• Perform complete recovery from a critical or noncritical data file loss using RMAN
• Perform incomplete recovery using RMAN
• Recover using incrementally updated backups
• Switch to image copies for fast recovery
• Restore a database onto a new host
• Perform Disaster recovery

Using RMAN to Duplicate a Database

• Creating a duplicate database
• Using a duplicate database

Performing Table space Point-in-Time Recovery

• Identify the situations that require TSPITR
• Perform automated TSPITR

Monitoring and Tuning RMAN

• Monitoring RMAN sessions and jobs
• Tuning RMAN
• Configure RMAN for Asynchronous I/O

Storage options for RAC

• RAW devices
• Clustered file system
• ASM