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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

Using Oracle name resolution


The concept of name resolution is one of the cornerstone principles in networking. People use name resolution every day without realizing it. Anytime we type in the URL for a website, we're using a name that refers to a particular Internet resource—a web server for instance. When we type www.companylink.c om/login/index.html into a browser, that domain name actually resolves to the IP address of a web server. The path after the URL domain usually refers to a directory structure present on that web server. The HTML file itself is a document within those directories. So, rather than knowing the IP address, directory structure, and file structure of every site we visit, we only need to know a name that resolves that information. The same is true of a name resolution in Oracle. Rather than requiring users to know every aspect of a connection, we can provide a name resolution solution that simplifies this. Oracle provides several types of name resolutions that users...