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Oracle9i Database Administration - DBA I

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Course Length - 5 Days
 
Course Description

This course provides a starting point for administration of the Oracle database. The first 2-day segment considers an in-depth discussion of the database architecture, including the Oracle instance, background processes, the SGA and memory structures, data files, tablespaces, extents, blocks and rows. Common administration tasks are also considered such as security, backup & recovery, physical storage of indexes and tables and many others.

 

You Will Learn How To:

At completion of this course, the student should be able to:

  • Install, startup and shutdown an Oracle database
  • Explain the internal architecture of data, memory and process structures
  • Administer a security policy for the database
  • Configure a basic backup & recovery strategy
  • Control physical storage of tables and indexes
  • Build efficient databases with clusters and bitmap indexes.
 

Course Prerequisites

Mandatory Prerequisites:

  • Introduction To Oracle9i SQL
  • Introduction To Oracle9i PL/SQL Language
  • Introduction To Oracle9i Advanced SQL
 

Who Should Attend?

Oracle database administrators.

 

Next Suggested Course

  • Oracle9i Database Backup & Recovery - DBA II
  • Oracle9i Database Performance Tuning

Course Outline

THE ORACLE DATABASE ENVIRONMENT

  • APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES
  • THE ORACLE DATABASE
  • COMPONENTS OF A DATABASE
  • INSTANCE CONFIGURATIONS
  • ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION TOOLS

MEMORY STRUCTURES WITHIN THE INSTANCE

  • PARAMETERS WHICH DETERMINE SGA SIZE

INSTANCE & USER PROCESSES

  • INSTANCE BACKGROUND PROCESSES
  • SQL EXECUTION PROCESSES

INSTALLATION & DATABASE CREATION

  • DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR AUTHENTICATION
  • PRE-INSTALLATION TASKS
  • POST-INSTALLATION TASKS

INSTANCE STARTUP & SHUTDOWN

  • DATABASE STARTUP
  • DATABASE SHUTDOWN
  • RESTRICTED SESSIONS
  • DATABASE FILES

DYNAMIC INSTANCE CONFIGURATION

  • DYNAMIC PARAMETER CHANGES
  • DETERMINING THE SCOPE OF CHANGES
  • VIEWING PARAMETER VALUES

USING LOCALLY-MANAGED TABLESPACES

  • ABOUT TABLESPACE MAINTENANCE
  • LOCALLY-MANAGED TABLESPACES
  • TEMPORARY SEGMENTS & TABLESPACES
  • THE OPTIMAL FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE

USING DICTIONARY-MANAGED TABLESPACES

  • DICTIONARY-MANAGED TABLESPACES
  • MIGRATING THE TABLESPACE MANAGEMENT METHOD

MANAGING DATA FILES

  • THE STORAGE HIERARCHY
  • EXPLORING THE PHYSICAL STORAGE HIERARCHY
  • MANAGING THE DATA FILES

MANAGING REDO LOGS

AUTOMATIC UNDO SPACE MANAGEMENT

  • CONFIGURING AUTOMATIC UNDO SPACE MANAGEMENT
  • TUNING AUTOMATIC UNDO SPACE MANAGEMENT

IMPLEMENTING ORACLE MANAGED FILES

MANAGING USERS

  • USER MANAGEMENT
  • ABOUT PRIVILEGES
  • RESOURCE LIMITS VIA PROFILES
  • PASSWORD MANAGEMENT VIA PROFILES

MANAGING PRIVILEGES VIA ROLES

UTILITIES, LOADING DATA

  • USING THE LOADER
  • UNDERSTANDING THE LOADER PROCESS
  • CONTROL FILE OPTIONS
  • DIRECT PATH LOADS

UTILITIES, EXPORTING & IMPORTING DATA

MANAGING INDEXES

  • INDEXES & INDEX SEGMENTS
  • ABOUT B-TREE INDEXES
  • ABOUT BITMAP INDEXES

INDEX DEFINITIONS WITHIN THE DATA DICTIONARY

MANAGING CLUSTERS & INDEXED ORGANIZED TABLES

GLOBALIZATION WITH NATIONAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT (NLS)

AUDITING DATABASE USAGE

  • AUDITING USERS & OBJECTS

SPECIFYING AUDITING ACTIONS