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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

Installing the Oracle Database software


Having reviewed the prerequisite considerations for an Oracle Database installation, we're now ready to step through the process. We've already noted that the Oracle Universal Installer attempts to make the installation process as similar as possible between different operating systems. However, there are key differences, and we will note them as we move ahead in the chapter. Most of the screens we'll present are done from an installation of Oracle 11g Release 2, v11.2.0.1, on the Red Hat Linux operating system. If you're installing on Windows or another Unix-based OS, you should see very similar screens for the most part. In situations that are distinct for certain operating systems, we'll note that fact and show screens from that operating system to highlight the differences.

Running the Oracle Universal Installer

Although there are not many differences between running the OUI on the different operating systems supported by Oracle, we begin our installation...