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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

Understanding the fundamentals of database security


The purpose of a database is to store data. That data can come in many forms, but if someone takes the time and money to hire DBAs to organize and store it, that data is important in some way. As a DBA, it is easy to focus on the practicalities of administration, such as performance tuning, backup and recovery, or database and object creation. In the day-to-day life of a DBA, which often consists of "fighting fires", it is easy to lose sight of security. The security of the data is not a subject about which someone will complain to a DBA—until that data has been compromised. Security is a responsibility that a DBA must often bear alone. Compound this with the fact that so few people really understand what's involved in securing a database. This leaves us with an extremely important facet of administering a database that is often neither understood nor valued by those outside of the database administration team. Nevertheless, that responsibility...