Introduction to Oracle Database

• Overview of the Oracle database
• Overview of the Oracle Cloud
• Relational database concepts
• Database administration tasks

Oracle 18c Architecture

• Overview of the Oracle database architecture
• The Oracle database instance
• Oracle Database memory structures
• Process architecture and structures
• Server and client processes
• The Oracle database storage architecture
• Connect to the Oracle database instance

Administer a Database Instance

• Administrative tools available to a DBA
• Use SQL*Plus in Oracle to manage a database instance
• Use SQL Developer to manage a database instance
• Administer the database using Enterprise Manager (EM)
• Overview of the Enterprise Manager framework
• Access Enterprise Manager Database Express
• The Enterprise Manager Database Express Home Page
• Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• Initialization parameter files

Configure the Network Environment

• Overview of network configuration
• Oracle Net Listener configuration and management
• Oracle Net naming methods
• Tools for configuring and managing the Oracle network
• Using the Net Configuration Assistant
• Configure client connections with Net Manager
• View listener configuration
• Start and stop the Oracle listener
• Use TNSPING to test Oracle Net connectivity
• Connect to the database
• Configure Net Services with Enterprise Manager

Storage Structures

• Overview of data storage
• The database block
• Overview of tablespaces and datafiles
• Use Enterprise Manager to view the storage structure of the database
• Create and alter tablespace commands
• Temporary tablespaces
• Create and manage datafiles
• Use OMF
• Drop tablespaces and datafiles

Manage Users

• Predefined database administration accounts
• User accounts
• Create a user account
• User authentication
• Change a user's password
• Manage a user account
• Drop a user account
• Monitor user information
• Terminate user sessions
• Create a Schema Only Account

Manage profiles and Resources

• Overview of user profiles
• Profile resource parameters
• Create profile command
• Manage passwords with profiles
• Control resource usage with profiles
• Maintain profiles

Manage Privileges

• Database access
• Oracle supplied roles
• System and object level privileges
• The grant and revoke commands
• Create, modify and drop roles
• Use predefined roles

Manage Profiles and Resources

• Overview of user profiles
• Profile resource parameters
• Create profile command
• Manage passwords with profiles
• Control resource usage with profiles
• Maintain profiles

database Auditing

• Overview of database security
• Overview of database auditing
• Security compliance
• Standard auditing
• Unified audit trail
• Separation of audit responsibilities with the AUDIT_ADMIN and AUDIT_VIEWER roles
• Configure the audit trail
• Specify audit options

Data Concurrancy and Lock Conflicts

• Levels of locking in Oracle
• Methods used to acquire locks
• Data concurrency
• Possible causes of contention
• DML locks
• Prevent locking problems
• Detect lock contention
• Resolve conflicts

Undo Management

• Undo data overview
• Monitor and administer undo
• Configure undo retention
• Switch undo tablespaces
• Specify the retention period
• Guarantee undo retention
• Retention period for flashback queries
• View undo space information
• Use the undo advisor
• Size the undo tablespace
• Alter an undo tablespace to a fixed size

Backup and Recovery Configuration

• Oracle backup solutions
• Oracle suggested backup strategy
• Overview of database backup, restore and recover
• Flashback technology
• Types of failure
• Instance recovery
• Tune instance recovery
• The MTTR Advisor
• Media failure
• Configure a database for recoverability

Proactive Database Maintenance

• Database Maintenance
• View the alert log
• The Automatic Workload Repository
• Statistic levels
• The Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitoring
• Monitor an Oracle database
• Use the Advisors
• Set up notification rules

Performance Management

• Tuning information sources
• Performance monitoring
• Tuning activities
• Performance planning
• Instance tuning
• Performance tuning methodology
• Performance tuning data
• Monitoring performance
• Managing memory
• Manage Private Temporary Tables

SQL Tuning

• SQL tuning
• Cancel a SQL Statement in a Session
• The Oracle Optimizer
• SQL Plan directives
• Adaptive execution plans
• SQL Advisors
• Automatic SQL Tuning results
• Implement automatic tuning recommendations
• SQL Tuning Advisor

Moving Data

• Create directory objects
• Data Pump architecture
• Data Pump data dictionary views
• Data Pump interactive mode
• Data Pump API
• Use Data Pump to export data
• Use Data Pump to import data
• Overview of SQL Loader
• Command line parameters
• Record filtering
• Control file keywords
• Datafiles
• SQL Loader data paths
• External Tables

Using Resource Manager

• Overview of the Database Resource Manager
• Use the Resource Manager
• Create Resource Plans
• The default maintenance resource manager plan
• Create Resource Plan Directives
• Allocate resources for Resource Plans

Automate Tasks with Scheduler

• Introduction to the Scheduler
• Access Rights
• Scheduler components and workflow
• Create a Job
• Job Classes
• Use time based, event based schedules
• Create an event based schedule

Manage Space & Oracle Support

• Overview of space management
• Block space management within segments
• Segment types
• Allocate extents
• Allocate space
• Row chaining and migration
• Create tables without segments

• The Enterprise Manager Support Workbench
• Register for security updates
• Work with Oracle Support
• My Oracle Support integration
• Log Service Requests
• Manage patches
• Apply a patch