Oracle Database Administration Concepts

Introduction to Oracle Database

Overview of Oracle Grid Architecture

Difference between a cluster and a grid

Responsibilities of Database Administrators

 Creating Oracle Database

Creating Oracle 11g / 10g Database using SQL commands

 Managing Tablespaces and Datafiles

Creating  new Tablespaces

Bigfile Tablespaces

To Extend the Size of a tablespace

To decrease the size of a tablespace

Coalescing tablespaces

Taking tablespaces Offline or Online

Making a Tablespace Read only.

Renaming Tablespaces

Dropping Tablespaces

Temporary Tablespace

Increasing or decreasing the size of a Temporary Tablespace

Tablespace Groups

Creating a Temporary Tablespace Group

Assigning a Tablespace Group as the Default Temporary Tablespace

Diagnosing and Repairing Locally Managed Tablespace Problems

Transporting Tablespaces

Viewing Information about Tablespaces and Datafiles

Relocating or Renaming Datafiles

Managing REDO LOGFILES

Adding a New Redo Logfile Group

Adding Members to an existing group

Dropping Members from a group

Dropping Logfile Group

Resizing Logfiles

Renaming or Relocating Logfiles

Clearing REDO LOGFILES

Viewing Information about Logfiles

Managing Control Files

Multiplexing Control File

Changing the Name of a Database

Creating A New Control File

Cloning an Oracle Database

Managing the UNDO TABLESPACE

Switching to Automatic Management of Undo Space

Calculating the Space Requirements For Undo Retention

Altering UNDO Tablespace

Dropping an Undo Tablespace

Switching Undo Tablespaces

Viewing Information about Undo Tablespace

SQL Loader

Conventional Path Load and Direct Path Load

Direct Path

Restrictions on Using Direct Path Loads

Export and Import

Invoking Export and Import

Using Import Utility

Migrating a Database across platforms

 DATA PUMP Utility

Using Data Pump Export Utility

Example of Exporting a Full Database

Example of Exporting a Schema

Exporting Individual Tables using Data Pump Export

Excluding and Including Objects during Export

Using Query to Filter Rows during Export

Suspending and Resuming Export Jobs (Attaching and Re-Attaching to the Jobs)

 Data Pump Import Utility

Importing Full Dump File

Importing Objects of One Schema to another Schema

Loading Objects of one Tablespace to another Tablespace

Generating SQL File containing DDL commands using Data Pump Import

Importing objects of only a Particular Schema

Importing Only Particular Tables

Running Import Utility in Interactive Mode

 Flash Back Features

Flashback Query

Using Flashback Version Query

Using Flashback Table to return Table to Past States

Purging Objects from Recycle Bin

Flashback Drop of Multiple Objects With the Same Original Name

Flashback Database: Alternative to Point-In-Time Recovery

Enabling Flash Back Database

To how much size we should set the flash recovery area

How far you can flashback database

Flashback Data Archive (Oracle Total Recall)

Introduction

Creating Flashback Data Archive tablespace

Creating Flashback Data Archive

Querying historical data

 Log Miner

LogMiner Configuration

LogMiner Dictionary Options

Using the Online Catalog

Extracting a LogMiner Dictionary to the Redo Log Files

Extracting the LogMiner Dictionary to a Flat File

Redo Log File Options

Automatically

Manually

BACKUP AND RECOVERY

Opening the Database in Archivelog Mode

Bringing the Database again in NoArchiveLog mode

Taking Offline (COLD) Backups

Taking Online (HOT) Backups

Recovering from the Loss of a Datafile