Advanced Oracle for Administrators


Course Number: ORC-336
Duration: 4 days (26 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

Oracle for Administrators Training Overview

Accelebrate's Advanced Oracle for Administrators training teaches students the skills needed to keep a database running reliably and efficiently, including working with multitenant architecture  (CDB/PDB), tuning the database, tuning SQL, and performing backup and recovery.

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.

Objectives

  • Understand, work with, and administer a multitenant architecture
  • Set up a Multitenant environment
  • Generate AWR SQL reports
  • Install and use Statspack
  • Investigate the SGA memory structures
  • Understand the purpose of indexes
  • Create and maintain indexes
  • Use SQL performance investigation tools
  • Apply SQL tuning techniques
  • Configure the database
  • Work with more advanced RMAN capabilities

Prerequisites

Students should have taken Accelebrate's Oracle for Administrators training or have equivalent experience.

Outline

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Multitenant Architecture
  • Investigate the multitenant architecture
  • Describe the container types: root, seed, pluggable
  • Understand how Oracle Net establishes sessions
  • Query the views that describe the environment
  • Describe some features relevant to large deployments
Set up a Multitenant Environment
  • Create a container database
  • Create pluggable containers
  • Convert a non-CDB to a pluggable container
  • Relocate, unplug, and drop containers
  • Hot clones of PDBs and non-CDBs
  • Upgrade a CDB
Multitenant Administration
  • Startup and shutdown a CDB
  • Open and close pluggable containers
  • Tablespace management
  • Create local and common objects
  • Understand use of roles and privileges
  • Set instance parameters
Using Statspack and AWR Reports
  • Understand the automatic snapshot mechanism
  • Use the DBMS_WORKLOAD_REPOSITORY package
  • Create snapshots
  • Create baselines
  • Modify settings
  • Generate and interpret AWR reports
  • Generate AWR SQL reports
  • Install and use Statspack
Frequently Encountered Wait Events
  • Disc I/O events
  • Buffer cache related events
  • Shared pool events
  • Redo generation events
  • Contention events
  • Enqueue waits
  • Latch and mutex events
Tuning Memory Structures
  • Investigate the SGA memory structures
  • Diagnose and fix issues with sizing of the SGA components
  • Use automatic shared memory management (ASMM)
  • Manage the aggregate PGA 
  • Understand the need for PGA memory
  • Correctly size the aggregate PGA
  • Work with temporary tablespaces
  • Enable automatic memory management (AMM)
Indexes
  • Understand the purpose of indexes
  • Describe the types of index
  • B-tree indexes
  • Function based indexes
  • Reverse key indexes
  • Bitmap and bitmap join indexes
  • Create and maintain indexes
  • The Oracle Text domain index type
The SQL Tuning Methodology
  • Define the purpose of tuning
  • Describe the SQL execution cycle
  • Understand the concept of cost based optimization
  • Learn the steps to tune a SQL statement
SQL Performance Investigation Tools
  • AWR reports
  • Statspack reports
  • Generate and read execution plans
  • The EXPLAIN PLAN command
  • The SQL*Plus autotrace facility
  • The DBMS_XPLAN package
  • Consider the use of SQL Trace
The Cost Based Optimizer
  • Understand the CBO’s decision making process
  • Join order
  • Join methods
  • Access methods
  • Use techniques to test alternative execution plans
  • Determine if statistics are inaccurate or inadequate
  • Gather object and other statistics
Techniques to Tune Any SQL statement
  • Recognize “red flags” in execution plans
  • Look for frequently seen errors in analysis and design
  • Some common programming mistakes
  • Gather all necessary statistics
  • Apply a solution discovery method
Configure the Database to Prevent Data Loss
  • Understand the importance of archive log mode
  • Ensure that files are multiplexed where possible
  • Manage the controlfile
  • Manage the online redo log
  • Consider use of a Fast Recovery Area
  • Consider use of Oracle Managed Files
  • Enable database flashback
  • Data Pump as part of a recovery strategy
The Basics of Backup, Restore, and Recovery with RMAN
  • Backup the database
  • Backup and remove archive logfiles
  • Perform complete and incomplete recovery
  • Configure defaults
Some more Advanced RMAN Capabilities
  • Decide between backupsets and image copies
  • Create incremental backups
  • Enable block change tracking
  • Use incrementally updated copies
  • Enable encryption and compression
  • Understand incomplete recovery usage cases
RMAN Maintenance, Reporting, and Tuning
  • Understand retention policies
  • Generate reports
  • Remove obsolete backups
  • Update the repository with external changes
  • Manage archive logfiles
  • Create long term and offsite backups
  • Consider performance options
Conclusion

Training Materials

All students receive comprehensive courseware and a related textbook.

Software Requirements

  • Windows or Linux with at least 8GB RAM
  • A complete installation of a modern instance of Oracle
  • Please contact us for detailed setup instructions if you have purchased this class.


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