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OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide

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OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide

Overview of this book

Oracle Database Server is the most widely used relational database in the world today. This book gives you the essential skills to master the fundamentals of Oracle database administration and prepares you for Oracle DBA certification."OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide" prepares you to master the fundamentals of Oracle database administration using an example driven method that is easy to understand. The real world examples will prepare you to face the daily challenges of being a database administrator.Starting with the essentials of why databases are important in today's information technology world and how they work, you are then guided through a full, customized installation of the Oracle software and creating your own personal database. We then examine fundamental concepts of Oracle, including architecture, storage structures, security, performance tuning, networking, and instance management. Finally, we take an in-depth look at some of the most important concepts in the daily life of an Oracle DBA - backup, recovery, and data migration."OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide" provides you with the skills you need in order to become a successful Oracle DBA, both for certification and real life tasks.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
OCA Oracle Database 11g: Database Administration I: A Real-World Certification Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we've taken our first steps to understanding backup and recovery concepts. We've looked at the core Oracle architecture that allows the database to be recovered. We've seen the ways that ARCHIVELOG mode can allow us to recover databases even up to the point of failure. We've examined the Flash Recovery Area and seen how it serves as a single source for recovery-related information. We've explored the concept of instance recovery and the ways in which we can tune it. We've examined the types of failure that can occur in databases and which ones require the intervention of a database administrator. Finally, we've explored the Data Recovery Advisor, which allows us to more easily identify the problems at the root of database failures, and can advise DBAs on how to proceed with recovery. In our next chapter, we'll examine the process of backing up databases with Oracle's Recovery Manager tool.