Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop II

Profile

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.

Audience

Database Administrators
Support Engineer
Sales Consultants
Technical Consultant

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

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Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of basic database administration

Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I

Course Content

 Introduction: Grid Computing, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Product

Controls.

 Configuring Recovery Manager: Recovery Manager Features and

Components.

 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

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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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