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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 covered a lot of ground. We've examined the hardware requirements for the Oracle Database on a number of different operating systems. We've configured a listener for our database using NETCA. We then used the DBCA to step through the creation of the database that we'll use throughout the course of this book. Along the way, we've gained an introductory understanding of some of the architectural features of the Oracle database, including datafiles, redo logs, initialization parameters, and memory caches. We then looked deeper into the concept of database creation, examining the steps behind a manual database creation with scripts. Lastly, we examined the concept of Windows Services on Oracle and looked at how we can manipulate them. In our next chapter, we'll take what we've learned about the Oracle architecture so far and expand it, covering the full breadth of how Oracle works "under the hood."