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    Know how to Backup and Recover an Oracle Database

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    Learn to use the RMAN (Recovery Manager)

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    Understand the FLASHBACK technique

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    Manage Database Memory and other Databases Resources

The skills the delegates learn by obtaining the Oracle Database 11g Certification helps them in various ways. They help decrease the company’s IT costs, deliver a higher level of service and develop their database skills. The course helps them to by offering a fast, reliable, secure and easy-to-manage tool for all database workloads. This course focuses on Backup and Recovery of the Oracle Database using various tools and techniques that are provided by Oracle.

 

Who should take this course

  • Database Administrators
  • Support Engineer
  • Technical Consultant
  • Technical Administrator
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Prerequisites

The candidates need to be familiar with Oracle SQL or equivalent and PL/SQL packages. Also, the candidate should hold a certification in Oracle Database 11g Administration Workshop I Release 2.

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What Will You Learn

After completing the course, the delegates will be in a position to do the following:

  • Backup and Recover A Database Using RMAN (Command Line Interface and Enterprise Manager)
  • Use Flashback to the View Past States of Data and Revert the Database Or Objects To That State
  • Use An Adaptable Memory Configuration For The Database
  • Isolate Sessions With Heavy Traffic and Poorly Performing SQL Statements
  • Configure The Oracle Database For Optimal Recovery
  • Set Up The Database Instance To Allocate Resources Appropriately Among Sessions and Tasks
  • Schedule Jobs
  • Optimise Database Storage
  • Diagnose and repair data failures with Flashback technology
  • Manage space to optimise database storage so you can respond to growing space requirements
  • Monitor and control major database components, including memory, performance and resources
  • Secure the availability of your database through proper backup and recovery strategies
  • Automate DBA Tasks with the Scheduler
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What's included

  Course Overview

This training takes the database administrator beyond the what was covered in  Workshop I Release 2. The delegates start this course by performing backup and recovery – an essential job of an administrator. Thereafter the delegates move on to learning new ways of performing back-ups such as Flashback and RMAN.

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  Course Content

1. Database Architecture and ASM

  • Describe Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
  • Set up initialization parameter files for ASM and database instances 
  • Start up and shut down ASM instances 
  • Administer ASM disk groups

2. Configuring for Recoverability 

  • Set multiple archive log file destinations to increase availability
  • Define, apply and use a retention policy 
  • Set Up Flash Recovery Area 
  • Use Flash Recovery Area

3. Using the RMAN Recovery Catalog

  • Identify situations that require RMAN recovery catalogue
  • Create and configure a recovery catalogue 
  • Synchronise the recovery catalogue  
  • Set up and use RMAN stored scripts 
  • Back up the recovery catalogue 
  • Set up and use a virtual private catalogue

4. Configuring Backup Specifications

  • Configure backup settings
  • Allocate channels to use in backing up  
  • Set backup optimisation 

5. RMAN Backups

  • Create image file backups
  • Create a whole database backup  
  • Enable fast incremental backup  
  • Create duplex backup and back up backup sets 
  • Create an archival backup for long-term retention  
  • Create a multisection, compressed and encrypted backup  
  • Report on and maintain backups 

6. Performing User-Managed Backup and Recovery

  • Recover from a lost TEMP file
  • Recover from a lost redo log group  
  • Recover from the loss of password file  
  • Perform user-managed complete database recovery 
  • Perform user-managed incomplete database recovery  
  • Implement user-managed and server managed backups  
  • Identify the need for backup mode 
  • Backing Up A Control File
  • Recovering Control Files

7. Recovery with RMAN

  • Perform complete recovery using RMAN
  • Perform incomplete recovery using RMAN  
  • Use incrementally updated backups  
  • Switch to image copies for fast recovery 
  • Restore a database onto a new host  
  • Use a backup control file for recovery
  • Perform Disaster recovery 

8. Using RMAN to Duplicate a Database

  • Creating a duplicate database
  • Using a duplicate database 

9. Performing Tablespace Point-in-Time Recovery

  • Identify the situations that require TSPITR 
  • Perform automated TSPITR

10. Monitoring and Tuning RMAN

  • Monitoring RMAN sessions and jobs
  • Tuning RMAN 
  • Configure RMAN for Asynchronous I/O

11. Using Flashback Technology

  • Restore dropped tables from the recycle bin
  • Perform Flashback Query 
  • Use Flashback Transaction

12. Additional Flashback Operations

  • How to Perform Flashback Table operations
  • Learning to Configure and Observe Flashback Database
  • The Next Step - Perform Flashback Database operations 
  • Set up and use a Flashback Data Archive 

13. Diagnosing the Database

  • Set up Automatic Diagnostic Repository
  • Using Support Workbench  
  • Perform Block Media Recovery      

14. Managing Memory

  • Implement Automatic Memory Management
  • Manually configure SGA parameters  
  • Set automatic PGA memory management   

15. Managing Database Performance

  • Using the SQL Tuning Advisor
  • Use the SQL Access Advisor to tune a workload  
  • Understand Database Replay 

16. Space Management

  • Achieve resumable space allocation
  • Describe the concepts of transportable tablespaces and databases  
  • Reclaim wasted space from tables and indexes by using the segment shrink functionality 

17. Managing Resources

  • Understand the database resource manager
  • Create and use Database Resource Manager Components

18. Automating Tasks with the Scheduler

  • Create jobs, programs, and schedules
  • Make use of time-based or event-based plans for executing Scheduler jobs 
  • Create lightweight jobs 
  • Use task chains to perform a series of related tasks 

19. Administering the Scheduler

  • Create Windows and Job Classes
  • Use advanced Scheduler concepts to prioritise jobs
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Oracle Database 11g Administration Workshop 2 Release 2

The Oracle Database Administration Workshop II Release 2 ensures fast, reliable, secure and easy solutions to manage performance. It helps to optimise database workloads, lower IT costs and deliver a higher quality of service by enabling smooth and rapid consolidation within your Datacenter. This course counts towards the Hands-on course requirement for the Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certification.



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