Oracle Database 11g R1 & R2: New Features For Administrators

Upon completion of the Oracle Database 11g R1 & R2: New Features For Administrators course, students will be able to assist experienced Oracle database administrators to understand the concepts and implement the new features and associated with the R1 and R2 releases of the Oracle 11g database. Based upon this knowledge one will be able to utilize these features and realize the benefits they offer. Among the specific subjects we will consider are:

• Changes, enhancements and new features within the database architecture, the database parameters and the utilities and facilities used by administrators.
• The Fault Diagnosability Infrastructure now included within the database and the first-failure data capture capabilities which enhance problem troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolution. Components include the Health Monitor, Support Workbench and Incident Packaging subsystem.
• Security enhancements include encryption of data, database security attack countermeasures, enhanced default security settings, and the SecureFiles storage mechanism.
• Backup and recovery enhancements provided through the RMAN framework.
• Duplicating and cloning databases for the creation of test platforms, standby database installations and application workload replay.
• Guided recovery of database failures and corruption using the Data Recovery Advisor.
• Automatic Storage Management (ASM) enhancements and other storage improvements including advanced compression techniques and algorithms.
• Consider both the challenge and the necessity of changes to the systems infrastructure and how these can disrupt production applications.
• Review the goals of change management, change assurance and how these are implemented with Real Application Testing technology available with the Oracle 11g database.
• How to perform the capture of a production database workload while not interfering with the applications or users involved.
• How to replay the production workload on a test database configuration, providing a real-world test of how an actual application will function in an envisioned database configuration.
• How to configure clients which will simulate the network interaction of real-world users in a test configuration.
• Perform a detailed analysis of application execution within proposed database configurations to assess whether the application performance will progress or regress as a result of the proposed change.
• Use the SQL Performance Analyzer tool to measure progression or regression of individual SQL statements under a proposed database configuration, providing a detailed level of change assurance before the change ever occurs.

• The target audience is the following professionals with experience using earlier versions of the Oracle database server, including: Database administrators, Web server administrators, System administrators, Implementation specialists, Data center support engineers, Senior application designers and developers.

• ORACLE DATABASE 11G R2: ADMINISTRATION I (DBOR-923)
• ORACLE DATABASE 11G R2: ADMINISTRATION II (DBOR-924)
• ORACLE DATABASE 11G R2: RMAN BACKUP & RECOVERY

CONFIGURING THE SERVER FOR INSTALLATION

• IDENTIFY system requirements
• OPTIMAL flexible architecture (OFA)
• ORACLE_BASE
• ORACLE_HOME
• CONFIGURE linux installation
• ORACLE_HOSTNAME environment variable
• CONFIGURE MS windows installation
• ORACLE_HOME variable
• ORACLE_HOSTNAME variable
• PREREQUISITE checks & fixup utility

ENTERPRISE EDITION INSTALLATION

• START the installation
• DESKTOP class installation 11g r2
• POST-installation configuration

UPGRADE, DEINSTALLATION & PATCHING

• DATABASE upgrade
• NETCA
• DBUA
• ONLINE patching
• ORACLE deinstaller

STORAGE ENHANCEMENTS

• ORACLE advanced compression
• HIGH-CAPACITY disks & the redo files
• COMPRESSED tables
• HYBRID columnar compression
• DEFERRED segment creation

DATABASE ARCHITECTURE CHANGES

• NEW instance background processes
• ORACLE exadata storage server
• EDITIONS & online redefinition
• MISCELLANEOUS parameter changes
• UNDO_MANAGMENT

AUTOMATIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT

• ABOUT memory management
• AUTOMATIC memory management
• MEMORY_TARGET
• MEMORY_MAX_TARGET
• USING EM & the memory advisors
• THE database smart flash cache

USING THE DATABASE RESULT CACHE

• ABOUT the result cache
• Configuring the result cache
• RESULT_CACHE_MAX_SIZE
• RESULT_CACHE_MOD
• RESULT_CAHCE_MAX_RESULT
• RESULT_CACHE_REMOTE_EXPIKRATION
• USING the result cache
• RELIES_ON clause
• MANAGING & monitoring result cache
• USING V$RESULT_CACHE_STATISTICS
• V$RESULT_CACHE_MEMORY
• V$RESULT_CACHE_OBJECTS
• V$RESLUT_CACHE_DEPENDENCY

ENABLING TRANSPARENT DATA ENCRYPTION

• TRANSPARENT data encryption
• MANAGING TDE
• IMPLEMENTING column encryption

ORACLE SECUREFILES

• LOB concepts & terminology
• BASICFILES LOB
• ALTER table
• SECUREFILES LOBS
• USING EM
• MONITORING securefiles performance
• MIGRATING basicfiles to securefiles

ADDITIONAL SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS

• DATA pump encryption
• BACKUP set encryption
• EM backup encryption
• DECRYPT during recovery
• TABLESPACE encryption
• SQL create tablespace with encryption
• ENHANCED default security settings
• ENHANCED security options
• DIAGNOSING database problems

MISCELLANEOUS NEW FEATURES

• LOCKING enhancements
• DDL_LOCK_TIMEOUT parameter
• INVISIBLE indexes
• AUTOMATIC maintenance tasks

GRID INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLATION

• WHAT is grid infrastructure?
• IDENTIFY system requirements
• MANAGING Linux devices
• MANAGING MS Windows devices
• CONFIGURE Linux installation
• GRID infrastructure installation
• VERIFY the installation
• SUBSEQUENT database installation

AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT

• ADMINISTERING the ASM instance
• ASM migration using EM
• ORACLE 11g ASM enhancements
• COMPATIBLE.ASM and compatible.rdbms
• DISK_REPAIR_TIME
• ASM_PREFFERED_READ_FAILURE_GROUPS
• ADMINISTRATION using EM

ORACLE FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGY

• FLASHBACK query
• SELECT…as of timestamp
• SELECT…as of SCN
• FLASHBACK table
• FLASHBACK drop
• FLASHBACK versions query
• FLASHBACK transaction query
• FLASHBACK transaction backout
• USING_DBMS_FLASHBACK()

FLASHBACK DATABASE

• CONFIGURING the flash recovery area
• PERFORMING database flashback
• MONITORING flashback performance
• FLASHABCK database considerations
• CONFIGURE flashback data archive

RMAN ENHANCEMENTS

• VIRTUAL private catalogs
• MANAGE VPC rights
• MANAGE a VPC
• BULIDING dynamic scripts
• BACKUP optimization
• ENHANCED parallelism & selection sizes
• ARCHIVAL backups

DATABASE DUPLICATION & CLONING

• WHY perform database duplication?
• RMAN duplicate database
• RMAN duplicate
• DATABASE cloning

RECOVERY WITH DATA RECOVERY ADVISOR

• DETECTING corruption
• V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION view
• DB_BLOCK_CHECKING
• DB_BLOCK_CHECKSUM
• DB_LOST_WRITE_PROTECT
• DB_ULTRA_SAFE
• RECOVERY using data recovery advisor
• RMAN interface

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

• UNDERSTANDING the application architecture
• SYSTEMS infrastructure changes
• CHANGE management lifecycle

WORKLOAD CAPTURE

• PREPARING the capture database
• WORKLOAD capture using the EM wizard
• WORKLOAD capture using the API

CONFIGURE THE REPLAY DATABASE

• REQUIREMENTS of a replace database
• RMAN duplicate

DATABASE REPLAY

• PREPROCESS captured workload
• REPLAY prerequisites
• REPLAY workload
• MONITOR the replay operation

REPLAY ANALYSIS

• LAUNCH replay analysis
• CONDUCT configuration chance analysis
• USE the PL/SQL API

SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYZER

• ABOUT SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
• MANAGING SQL tuning sets
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYZER TASKS
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
• SOLUTIONS
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-1
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-2
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-3
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-4
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-5
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-6
• SQL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS-7