The primary audiences for this course are:

• Database administrators

• Web server administrators

• System administrators

• Implementation specialists

• Data center support engineers

• Senior application designers and developers

This course brings database administrators beyond a basic understanding of their duties and to:

Transfer advanced skills needed to effectively administer an Oracle database installation
within a large-scale enterprise.
Automatic database management, monitoring and tuning facilities. Included are automatic
management of storage space and memory resources within the database and the role of the
Segment Advisor and Memory Advisors.
Automatic resumption of database operations even in the face of storage space allocation
failures and errors.
Setting metric and alert thresholds for proactive database monitoring.
Using deferred segment creation to improve performance and establish efficient use of
space.
Globalization features within the database to support applications in multiple languages,
currencies, time zones and countries.
Utilizing diagnostic sources in troubleshooting database problems and employing the Fault
Diagnosability Infrastructure, the Database Instance Health monitor and the Support
Workbench to capture and process fault data.
Configuring the database to recover from a wide variety of failures. This includes
configuring redo log files and the Flash or Fast Recovery Area.
Using Oracle flashback technology to recover from user errors and from database failures,
including Flashback Data Archive and Flashback Transaction Backout as part of the Oracle
Total Recall technology.