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Beginning Oracle Database 11g Administration - From Novice to Professional
of: Ignatius Fernandez
Apress, 2009
ISBN: 9781430206286 , 464 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Contents at a Glance
5
Contents
7
Foreword
17
About the Author
18
About the Technical Reviewer
19
Acknowledgments
20
Introduction
21
Who This Book Is For
22
How This Book Is Structured
22
Source Code and Updates
27
Errata
27
Contacting the Author
27
Database Concepts
28
Relational Database Management Systems
29
What Is a Database?
30
What Is a Relational Database?
31
What Is a Database Management System?
40
What Makes a Relational Database Management
44
System Relational?
44
Summary
45
Exercises
45
Further Reading
46
SQL and PL/SQL
47
Railroad Diagrams
49
Types of SQL
51
Embedded SQL
55
SQL*Plus and SQL Developer
56
Criticisms of SQL
59
Introduction to PL/SQL
64
Summary
72
Exercises
74
Further Reading
74
Oracle Architecture
76
Database vs. Instance
78
Database
78
Instance
81
Life Cycle of a Database Session
84
Summary
85
Exercises
87
Further Reading
87
Database Implementation
88
Planning
89
Licensing
89
Architectural Choices
94
Sizing
97
Summary
101
Exercises
102
Further Reading
103
Software Installation
104
Oracle Technology Network
104
The Forgotten Manuals
105
Prerequisites and Preinstallation Requirements
105
Client Installations
106
Server Installations
110
Oracle Database Examples
114
Perl
114
Summary
115
Exercises
116
Further Reading
116
Database Creation
117
Next-Next-Next; Click Finish
118
Configuring a Listener
119
Creating and Configuring a Database
123
Post-Creation Tasks
142
Other Methods of Database Creation
142
Basic Database Administration Tasks
145
Summary
151
Exercises
151
Further Reading
152
Physical Database Design
153
Indexes
154
Partitions
159
Denormalization and Materialized Views
166
Clusters
167
Summary
169
Exercises
170
Further Reading
171
User Management and Data Loading
173
Schemas
173
User Management
180
Data Loading
190
Summary
201
Exercises
202
Further Reading
203
Database Support
204
Taking Control
205
Enterprise Manager
206
SQL Developer
209
Remote Diagnostic Agent
212
Dictionary Tables and Views
214
Third-Party Tools
218
Summary
219
Exercises
219
Further Reading
220
Monitoring
221
Monitoring Database Availability
222
Monitoring Changes
224
Monitoring Security
225
Monitoring Backups
227
Monitoring Growth
227
Monitoring Workload
229
Monitoring Performance
233
Monitoring Capacity
236
Summary
239
Exercises
240
Further Reading
240
Fixing Problems
242
Systematic Five-Step Problem-Solving Method
243
The Book We All Want and Best Practices for
245
Problem Management
245
Real-Life Example—Unresponsive Listener
246
Incident Management vs. Problem Management
250
Internet Resources
251
Working with Oracle Support
255
Error Codes
259
Four Errors
261
Summary
271
Exercises
272
Further Reading
273
Backups
274
Why Do You Need Backups?
275
Horror Stories
276
Types of Backup
277
Practical Demonstration: Physical Backups
280
Practical Demonstration: Logical Backups
286
Common RMAN Commands
288
The “Easy” Button
292
Summary
295
Exercises
295
Further Reading
296
Recovery
298
Horror Stories
298
Types of Recovery
299
Flashback Technology
302
LogMiner
308
Data Recovery Advisor
310
Recovery Using Enterprise Manager
317
Documentation and Testing
320
Summary
320
Exercises
321
Further Reading
322
Database Maintenance
324
The Maintenance Plan
324
Backups
325
Statistics
327
Archiving and Purging
329
Log File Maintenance
332
Auditing
335
User Management
338
Capacity Management
338
Patching
344
Summary
347
Exercises
348
Further Reading
349
The Big Picture and the Ten Deliverables
350
An Instructive Job Interview
351
How I Became a DBA
353
ITIL
355
Start with the End in Mind: The Ten Deliverables
361
The Book You Really Need and the Art of the SOP
363
Summary
371
Exercises
372
Further Reading
373
Database Tuning
374
Instance Tuning
375
Using a Systematic Five-Step Tuning Method
375
Analyzing DB Time
378
Understanding the Oracle Wait Interface
383
Mining the Statspack Repository
384
Using the Statspack Report
393
Summary
394
Exercises
395
Further Reading
398
SQL Tuning
399
Defining Efficiency
399
Identifying Inefficient SQL Statements
400
Understanding the Causes of Inefficient SQL
402
Ways to Improve SQL
403
Tuning by Example
409
Summary
431
Exercises
433
Further Reading
433
Index
435
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