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
Introduction
Grid Computing
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Product Controls
Database Architecture Review
Configuring Recovery Manager
Recovery Manager Features and Components
Using a
Flash Recovery Area with RMAN
Configuring RMAN
Control File Autobackups
Retention Policies and Channel Allocation
Using Recovery Manager to connect to a target database in default NOCATALOG mode
Displaying the current RMAN configuration settings
Altering the backup retention policy for a database
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 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
