Courses

Elements of the Oracle Database 11g architecture and the tools and steps required to install the Oracle Database 11g software

Steps for creating a new Oracle Database 11g database and then configuring it and managing the instance

Steps for configuring new Oracle Net Listeners and database connectivity

Steps for maintaining storage structures and automating storage management in Oracle Database 11g and for managing privileges, roles, and other security features for users

Steps for managing schema objects, such as tables, views, and indexes, and recognize ways to use SQL and PL/SQL commands to manipulate data and ensure data concurrency

Steps required to manage undo information, secure an Oracle Database 11g database, and maintain it by monitoring statistics, automated tasks and alert thresholds

Steps for ensuring an Oracle Database 11g database is available to users when needed by monitoring its performance, anticipating and avoiding database failure, setting up instance recovery options, and creating backups

Ways to make use of Oracle Database 11g’s tools for moving and recovering data, reporting on problems, and installing updates to enhance a database

Steps for getting started with PL/SQL, benefits of the available tools, creating basic statements, declaring variables, testing code, and adhering to scoping and nesting rules

Steps for using PL/SQL to manipulate data, control transactions, determine the outcome of statements, and create loops and conditional control structures.

Ways to create user-defined PL/SQL records and INDEX BY tables and steps for declaring and controlling explicit cursors and cursors with parameters

Ways to handle unanticipated errors in PL/SQL, write stored procedures and functions, deploy Java applications and Web services, and use cursor variables

Steps for getting started with PL/SQL, benefits of the available tools, creating basic statements, declaring variables, testing code, and adhering to scoping and nesting rules

Steps for using PL/SQL to manipulate data, control transactions, determine the outcome of statements, and create loops and conditional control structures

Ways to create user-defined PL/SQL records and INDEX BY tables and steps for declaring and controlling explicit cursors and cursors with parameters

Ways to handle unanticipated errors in PL/SQL, write stored procedures and functions, deploy Java applications and Web services, and use cursor variables

Steps for designing, debugging, invoking, and bundling PL/SQL subprograms, procedures and functions, and also for handling their ex

Steps for creating and using efficient PL/SQL packages, including Oracle-supplied packages, executing dynamic SQL, and improving the performance of code

Steps for creating, managing, and using database triggers, and for using the new PL/SQL compiler, its initialization parameters, and its compile time warnings

Steps for performing conditional compilation to selectively use PL/SQL code, wrapping code, and tracking dependencies

Structural elements in Oracle Database 11g’s architecture, including and Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and the steps for managing storage using disk groups

Steps for configuring all aspects of backup and recovery functionality in Oracle Database 11g using ARCHIVELOG mode, retention policies, a Flash Recovery Area, and an RMAN recovery catalog

Steps for preparing a database for backup and for performing various types of RMAN backups and monitoring them using reports and dynamic performance views

Steps for performing user-managed backups and recoveries

Ways to use RMAN to ensure that data is not lost in Oracle Database 11g by performing complete and incomplete recoveries as well as disaster recoveries, by cloning databases, and by restoring a tablespace to a particular point in time

Steps for making sure that you can recover data quickly by tuning RMAN to avoid bottlenecks and for making sure that any changes to a database can be easily reversed, if necessary, using Oracle Database 11g’s flashback features

Steps for diagnosing and repairing database problems with the help of Oracle Support using Automatic Diagnostic Repository, Support Workbench, and health checks, and for enabling and configuring automatic memory management and automatic shared memory management

Steps for making sure your Oracle Database 11g database is performing well and has adequate space, by monitoring statistics, tuning SQL, testing workloads, managing space, and transporting tablespaces

Ways to ensure that resources are being put to best use and database jobs are performed when they should be using the Database Resource Manager and the Scheduler

Steps for utilizing Oracle Database 11g’s globalization support features to ensure that information and data is displayed in a user’s native language and that territory and language-dependent conventions are adhered to