Introduction

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Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
Install, create, and administer Oracle Database 11g
Release 2
Configure the database for an application
Employ basic monitoring procedures
Implement a backup and recovery strategy
Move data between databases and files

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Course Objectives
In this course, you install the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition software, create
a new database, and learn how to administer the database.
You also configure the database to support an application and perform tasks such as creating
users, defining storage structures, and setting up security. This course uses a fictional
application. However, you perform all the core tasks that are necessary for a real application.
Database administration does not end after you configure your database. You also learn how to
protect it by designing a backup and recovery strategy and how to monitor it to ensure that it
operates smoothly.

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Oracle Products and Services

Oracle Database
Oracle WebLogic Application Server
Oracle Applications
Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle Developer Suite
Oracle Services

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Oracle Products and Services

Oracle Database: The Oracle database is the first database that is designed for enterprise
grid computing (the most flexible and cost-effective way to manage information and
applications).
Oracle WebLogic Application Server: Oracles Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition,
certified server integrates everything that is needed to develop and deploy Web-based
applications. The application server deploys e-business portals, Web services, and
transactional applications such as PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, and Java EE based applications.
Oracle Applications: Oracle E-Business Suite is a complete set of business applications
for managing and automating processes across your organization.
Oracle Collaboration Suite: Oracle Collaboration Suite is a single integrated system for
all your organizations communications data: voice, email, fax, wireless, calendar
information, and files.
Oracle Developer Suite: Oracle Developer Suite is a complete, integrated environment
that combines application development and business intelligence tools.
Oracle Services: Services such as Oracle Consulting and Oracle University provide you
with the necessary expertise for your Oracle projects. For links to a variety of resources,
see the appendix titled Next Steps: Continuing Your Education.

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Oracle Database 11g:

g Stands for Grid

Open Grid Forum (OGF)

Oracles grid infrastructure:
Low cost
High quality of service
Easy to manage
Storage
grid

Database
grid

Automatic
Storage
Management

Real
Application
Clusters

Application
grid

Application
Server
Clusters

Grid
control

Enterprise
Manager
Grid Control

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Oracle Database 11g: g Stands for Grid

Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a standards body that develops standards for grid computing. It
comprises a set of committees and working groups that focus on various aspects of grid
computing. The committees and working groups are composed of participants from academia,
the research community, and (increasingly) commercial companies. You can see the website of
OGF at http://www.ogf.org.
Oracle has created the grid computing infrastructure software that balances all types of
workloads across servers and enables all those servers to be managed as one complete system.
Grid computing can achieve the same very high level of reliability as mainframe computing
because all components are clustered. But unlike mainframes and large UNIX symmetric
multiprocessing (SMP) servers, a grid can be built with open system technologies, such as Intel
processors and the Linux operating system, at a very low cost.
Oracles grid computing technology includes:
Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Application Server Clusters
Enterprise Manager Grid Control

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Grid Infrastructure for Single-Instance

Grid Infrastructure for Single-Instance is introduced with Oracle
Database 11g Release 2.
Is installed from the clusterware media, separate from
Oracle database software
Contains Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Contains Oracle Restart a high availability solution for
non-clustered databases
Can monitor and restart the following components:

Database Instances
Oracle Net Listener
Database Services
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) Instance
ASM Disk Groups
Oracle Notification Services (ONS/eONS) for Data Guard
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Grid infrastructure for Single-Instance

Grid Infrastructure for Single-Instance is introduced with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. It is
installed from the clusterware media, separate from Oracle database software and now includes
Oracle Automatic Storage Management and a new feature called Oracle Restart.
Oracle Restart is designed to improve the availability of your Oracle database. It implements a
high availability solution for single instance (non-clustered) environments only. For Oracle Real
Application Cluster (Oracle RAC) environments, the functionality to automatically restart
components is provided by Oracle Clusterware. Oracle Restart can monitor the health and
automatically restart the following components:
Database Instances
Oracle Net Listener
Database Services
ASM Instance
ASM Disk Groups
Oracle Notification Services (ONS/eONS) for Data Guard
Oracle Restart ensures that the components are started in the proper order, in accordance with
component dependencies. If a component must be shut down, it ensures that the dependent
components are cleanly shut down first. Oracle Restart runs out of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure
home, which you install separately from Oracle database homes.
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