Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

Overview of this book

Does your database look complicated? Are you finding it difficult to interact with it? Database interaction is a part of the daily routine for all database professionals. Using Oracle Utilities the user can benefit from improved maintenance windows, optimized backups, faster data transfers, and more reliable security and in general can do more with the same time and resources.

Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewer

About the Reviewer

Preface

Free Chapter

Data Pump

Data Pump features

Data Pump architecture

Setting up the practical scenarios

Data Pump export

Data Pump restart capability

Getting information about the export job

Data Pump import

Improving performance with Data Pump

Working with the Data Pump API

Data Pump 11g new features

SQL*Loader

SQL*Loader basics

Preparing the demo environment

Specifying a particular character set

Load on the fly

Direct path versus Conventional path load

Loading Large Objects (LOBs)

Loading multimedia files

General performance booster tips

External Tables

External Tables

The External Table basics

Let's setup the environment

Inter-version compatibility

Data transformation with External Tables

Mapping XML files as External Tables

Dynamically changing the external reference

Oracle 11g External Table enhancements

Recovery Manager Advanced Techniques

Recovery Manager Advanced Techniques

Recovery Manager basics

Backup compression

Faster backups through intra-file parallel backup and restore operations (11g only)

Block media recovery

Backup duration and throttling

Database cloning

Inter-platform database migration

Migrate to and from an ASM environment

General backup advices

Recovery Manager Restore and Recovery Techniques

Recovery Manager Restore and Recovery Techniques

Oracle database recovery

Loss of data files

Loss of redo log files

Crosscheck command

Nologging considerations

Session Management

Session Management

User sessions in a dedicated server architecture

Blocking sessions

Resource Manager

Active Session History (ASH)

Session monitoring, the traditional way

Oracle Scheduler

Oracle Scheduler

Oracle Scheduler concepts

Getting started with the Oracle Scheduler

Time expression syntax

Jobs and Job Classes

Managing the Scheduler

Data dictionary related views

Oracle Wallet Manager

Oracle Wallet Manager

The Oracle Wallet Manager

Oracle Wallet Manager CSR generation

Storing the Oracle Wallet in the Windows registry

Storing the Wallet in an LDAP server

Using certificates for authentication

Using the Oracle Wallet to store database credentials

Security Management

Security Management

Using the Oracle Wallet to encrypt backups

The enterprise user

Database Configuration Assistant

Database Configuration Assistant

Database creation

Database edition

Database template management

Automatic Storage Management configuration

DBCA, Batch mode

Oracle Universal Installer

Oracle Universal Installer

OUI basic and advanced installation modes

Modes of installation

OUI command line parameters

Silent installation mode

The oraparam.ini file

OUI return codes

Installing Oracle from the Web

Recovering a lost Inventory

Cloning Oracle Home using OUI

Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant

Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant

Enterprise Manager Components

Enterprise Manager configuration

EMCA Command Line Interface

EMCA 10g Release 1

EM directory structure

Environment changes

Securing Enterprise Manager

OPatch

Downloading the latest OPatch version

OPatch requirements

Oracle maintenance using OPatch

Applying a single patch using OPatch

Querying the Oracle inventory

Rolling back a failed OPatch session

Considerations after applying a patch

OPatch in Oracle 11g

Oracle Configuration Manager Registration

Critical Patch Updates

Hot patching (11g only)

Troubleshooting OPatch

Using Enterprise Manager for software maintenance

Managing Patches in EM 11g

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OPatch requirements

In order for you to use OPatch, some requirements must be met:

1. Set the Oracle Home environment variable to point to a valid Oracle Home directory. This Oracle Home must match the one used during the installation.
2. Java SDK 1.4 or higher must be installed.
3. The environment variable that points to the shared library must be properly set (LD_LIBRARY_PATH or SHLIB_PATH, which depends on the OS platform).
4. OPatch creates a rollback script in case the patch installation has to be undone. It also performs a backup of the Inventory, so you must make sure you have enough free space for these operations.
5. Use a compatible version, 10gR2 requires OUI to be 10.2.0.1.0 or higher.
6. When working in RAC environments, make sure the user equivalence between hosts is correctly set.
7. Verify the Oracle Inventory is valid, you can check this by issuing the command OPatch lsinventory -detail. This command displays the software installed on the target Oracle Home. If this command returns...