Database Architecture and ASM

• Oracle Database Architecture Overview
• ASM General Architecture
• Creating an ASM Instance
• Using Enterprise Manager to Manage ASM Users
• ASM Storage Concepts
• The ASMCMD Utility
• ASM Scalability and Performance

Configuring for Recoverability

• Purpose of Backup and Recovery Functionality
• Typical Backup and Recovery Tasks
• Oracle Backup and Recovery Solutions
• Using Recovery Manager (RMAN)
• Using a Flash Recovery Area
• Flash Recovery Area Space Management

Using the RMAN Recovery Catalog

• RMAN Repository Data Storage: Comparison of Options
• Storing Information in the Recovery Catalog
• Registering a Database in the Recovery Catalog
• Recovery Catalog Resynchronization: Concepts
• Using RMAN Stored Scripts
• Backing Up and Recovering the Recovery Catalog
• Using a Virtual Private Catalog

Configuring Backup Specifications

• Using RMAN to Create Backups
• Configuring Persistent Settings for RMAN
• Using Enterprise Manager to Configure RMAN Settings
• Control File Auto-backups
• Managing Persistent Settings
• Configuring Devices for Backup
• Configuring and Allocating Channels for Use in Backups
• Configuring Backup Optimization

Creating Backups

• Creating an Oracle-Suggested Backup
• Creating Backup Sets & Image Copies
• Creating a Whole Database Backup
• RMAN Backup Types
• Monitoring Block Change Tracking
• Creating Duplex Backup Sets
• Archival Backups: Concepts
• Encrypting Backups

Performing User-Managed Backup and Recovery

• Restoring and Recovering
• Causes of File Loss
• Critical Versus Non-critical
• Recovering from a TEMPFILE Loss
• Re-creating Indexes
• Recovering from a Lost Index Tablespace
• Authentication Methods for Database Administrators
• Recovering a Read-Only Tablespace

Using RMAN to Perform Recovery

• Using RMAN RESTORE and RECOVER Commands
• Performing Recovery Using Enterprise Manager
• Recovery Using Incrementally Updated Backups
• Perform a Fast Switch to Image Copies
• Restoring and Recovering the Database on a New Host
• Performing Disaster Recovery

Using RMAN to Duplicate a Database

• Using RMAN to Create a Duplicate Database
• Creating a Duplicate Database
• Creating an Initialization Parameter File for the Auxiliary Instance
• Allocating Auxiliary Channels
• Understanding the RMAN Duplication Operation
• Using EM to Clone a Database
• Cloning a Running Database

Performing Tablespace Point-in-time Recovery

• Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery (TSPITR) Concepts
• Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery: Architecture
• Understanding When to Use TSPITR
• Determining the Tablespaces for the Recovery Set
• Using Enterprise Manager to Perform TSPITR
• Understanding TSPITR Processing
• Troubleshooting RMAN TSPITR

Monitoring and Tuning RMAN

• Parallelization of Backup Sets
• Monitoring RMAN Sessions
• Interpreting RMAN Message Output
• Using the DEBUG Option
• Tuning RMAN
• RMAN Multiplexing
• Comparing Synchronous and Asynchronous I/O
• Tape Subsystem Performance Rules

Using Flashback Technology

• Flashback Technology
• Transactions and Undo
• Guaranteeing Undo Retention
• Preparing Your Database for Flashback
• Flashback Drop and the Recycle Bin
• Using Flashback Technology to Query Data
• Possible Workflow
• Flashback Transaction Wizard

Using Flashback Database

• Flashback Table
• Enabling Row Movement on a Table
• Enabling Row Movement on a Table
• Flashback Database Architecture
• Configuring Flashback Database
• Performing Flashback Database Using EM
• Flashback Database Considerations
• Flashback Data Archive

Diagnosing the Database

• Automatic Diagnostic Workflow & Repository
• Location for Diagnostic Traces
• Viewing the Alert Log Using Enterprise Manager
• The Support Workbench and Oracle Configuration Manager
• Create a Service Request
• Package and upload diagnostic data to Oracle Support
• Incident Packaging Configuration
• Health Monitor Overview & Data Recovery Advisor

Managing Memory

• Oracle Memory Structures
• Automatic Memory Management Overview
• Oracle Database Memory Parameters
• Auto Memory Parameter Dependency
• Automatic Shared Memory Management: Overview
• Automatic PGA Memory Management
• Using the Memory Advisor to Size the SGA
• Memory Tuning Guidelines for the Library Cache

Managing Database Performance

• Tuning Activities
• Performance Planning & Performance Tuning Methodology
• Instance Tuning
• Troubleshooting and Tuning Views
• Automatic Workload Repository
• SQL Tuning & SQL Advisors
• Using the SQL Tuning Advisor
• SQL Access Advisor: Overview

Using the Segment Advisor

• Space Management: Overview
• Proactive Tablespace Monitoring
• Thresholds and Resolving Space Problems
• Monitoring Tablespace Space Usage
• Shrinking Segments
• Space Reclamation with ASSM
• Automatic Segment Advisor
• Minimum Compatibility Level

Managing Resources

• Database Resource Manager: Overview
• Database Resource Manager Concepts
• Accessing Resource Plans
• Default Maintenance Resource Manager Plan
• Creating Consumer Groups
• Resource Allocation Methods for Resource Plans
• Resource Allocation Methods for Resource Plans
• Monitoring the Resource Manager

Automating Tasks with the Scheduler

• Simplifying Management Tasks
• Key Components and Steps
• Creating an Event-Based Schedule
• Creating Complex Schedules
• Creating Job Chains
• Creating Job Chains

Administering the Scheduler

• Advanced Scheduler Concepts
• Job Classes
• Windows
• Prioritizing Jobs Within a Window
• Remote Jobs
• Installing the Scheduler Agent
• Dictionary Views Supporting Remote Jobs

Globalization

• Globalization Support Features
• What Every DBA Needs to Know
• Understanding Unicode
• Database Character Sets and National Character Sets
• Language- and Territory-Dependent Parameters
• Linguistic Searching and Sorting
• Case- and Accent-Insensitive Search and Sort
• NLS Data Conversion with Oracle Utilities