Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop II Release 2

Backing Up and Recovering The Oracle Database

Know how to Backup and Recover an Oracle Database
Learn to use the RMAN (Recovery Manager)
Understand the FLASHBACK technique
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

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.

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

Key Learning Points

Courseware

Tutor Support

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.

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

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.

About Wokingham

Wokingham

Wokingham is an ancient market town located in Berkshire, England that is 39 miles west of London. It is 11 km south-east of Reading, 13 km north of Camberley and 6.4 km west of Bracknell. According to 2011 census, Wokingham had a population of around 30,690.

Wokingham was called Borough before 1974 reorganisation of local government. Later Wokingham was merged with Wokingham rural district to establish a new Wokingham District. Borough granted its status in 2007.

Governance

Nothern part of Wokingham, centred on Ashridge was separated part of Wiltshire. The area was extended well into town centre before being transferred to Berkshire in 1844. In 1894 ancient parish was divided into rural and urban civil parishes. In 1974 Wokingham was merged with Wokingham Rural District under Local Government Act 1972 to create a non-metropolitan district of Wokingham. Since 1998 Wokingham is a unitary authority area. Wokingham consists of 54 elected councillors. Council is headed by one councillor known as the chairman of the council. Council elections are held in three out of every four years with Conservative party having a majority since 2002 election. Offices of Borough Council are based at Shute End. In Wokingham, successor parish continued to exist. Wokingham Town Council administers Wokingham. This council is elected every four years, and consists of 25 councillors that represent Wescott, Norreys, Evendons and Emmbrook and these are four wards of the town. Every year one is elected as Mayor. In 1860 present town hall was erected in Guildhall site. The constituency of Wokingham MP is Conservative John Redwood who has represented Wokingham since 1987.

Education

Wokingham has four secondary schools. Elmbrook School is a co-education school that is a Maths and Computing College. St Crispin's School is also a co-educational school which is a Computing and Maths College. In 1931, The Holl School was founded in the Dower House of Beches’s Manor, and it is a girls' school. The Holl School is also a Science and Language College. Forest School is a boys school and an enterprise as well as a business college. There is Private School also in Wokingham. In 1945 Holme Grange School for Girls was founded and for boys aged 3-`16 years. At Luckley, Luckley House School was founded in 1918 for girls aged 11-18. In 1937 Ludgrove School shifted to Wixenford house. White House Preparatory School was closed. The oldest school in Wokingham Borough, Reading Blue Coal School was founded in 1666. Blue Coat is situated in Sonning village since 1946 and has catchment areas of South Oxfordshire and most of Berkshire.