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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 introduced a lot of terms and concepts to explain the internal architecture of the Oracle RDBMS. Throughout the course of this book, we will continue to revisit these concepts and expand on them as we go, in an iterative fashion. We've examined the components of the Oracle instance, the background processes, and the memory caches. We've explored each of these components in greater detail, such as looking at each of the aspects of the caches. We've connected this to the other side of the Oracle RDBMS—the database. We've examined each of the core datafiles that make up the database. In the process, we've seen how both the instance and database work together to form the Oracle architecture. We've also examined Oracle RAC, an alternative to the single-instance architecture that offers scalability and high availability. In our next chapter, we'll learn more about the database side of the RDBMS; we'll learn to manage tablespaces and the data within them.