Oracle Database 11g R2: Advanced Administration (Paperback)

The overall objective of this Oracle 11g training module is to bring database administrators beyond a basic understanding of their duties and to transfer advanced skills needed to effectively administer an Oracle database installation within a large-scale enterprise. Important subject areas include advanced database configuration, performance monitoring and tuning, configuring for recovery, troubleshooting and fault diagnosis, and use of the extensive advisory framework. Among the topics covered are: - Automatic database management, monitoring and tuning facilities. Included are automatic management of storage space and memory resources within the database and the role of the Segment Advisor and Memory Advisors; - Automatic resumption of database operations even in the face of storage space allocation failures and errors; - Setting metric and alert thresholds for proactive database monitoring; - Using deferred segment creation to improve performance and establish efficient use of space; - Globalization features within the database to support applications in multiple languages, currencies, time zones and countries; - Utilizing diagnostic sources in troubleshooting database problems and employing the Fault Diagnosability Infrastructure, the Database Instance Health monitor and the Support Workbench to capture and process fault data; - Configuring the database to recover from a wide variety of failures. This includes configuring redo log files and the Flash or Fast Recovery Area; Using Oracle flashback technology to recover from user errors and from database failures, including Flashback Data Archive and Flashback Transaction Backout as part of the Oracle Total Recall technology; - Perform other flashback operations, including Flashback Version Query, Flashback Transaction Query and Flashback Database.