Oracle® Database 12c: New Features for Administrators

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Course Description:

In the Oracle Database 12c: New Features for Administrators course, you'll learn about the new and enhanced features of Oracle Database 12c. Expert instructors will teach you how these features increase security, manageability and performance.

Explore the Following New Features:

    Online Data-file Move
    Heat Map
    Automatic Data Optimization
    Temporal history
    Temporal validity
    Row-archival
    Unified Auditing
    Administrative privileges
    Privilege Analysis
    Data Redaction
    Adaptive Execution Plans
    SQL Plan Directives
    Real-Time ADDM
    Compare Period ADDM
    Data Pump
    Partitioning
    SQL

Benefits to You:

Ensure fast, reliable, secure and easy to manage performance. Optimize database workloads, lower IT costs and deliver a higher quality of service by enabling consolidation onto database clouds.

Multitenant Architecture:

After a brief review of the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c and Enterprise Manager Database Express, you'll learn the new concept of multitenant architecture, its benefits and usage. This includes tasks like creating, managing, monitoring, backing up and recovering multitenant container database and pluggable databases.

Hands-on Practices and Demonstrations:

Hands-on practices and available demonstrations help you learn how to use these new or enhanced features of Oracle Database 12c. You'll explore using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and other tools like Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Express SQL Developer to manage, monitor and administer your data center.

Target Student:

    Administrator
    Database Administrators
    System Administrator

Pre-requisites:

Required:

    Good knowledge of Oracle Database 11g:

Recommended:

    Good knowledge of Oracle Database 11g
    Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Install & Upgrade
    Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Performance Based Objectives:

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Create, manage and monitor multitenant container database and pluggable databases
  • Manage datafile online operations, data lifecycle management with heat map and automatic data optimization, archive data using Row-archival or Temporal Validity and Temporal Histor
  • Set up the unified audit trail
  • Understand and use the new privileges, such as SYSBACKUP, SYSDG, SYSKM and manage privilege analysis
  • Create and manage Data Redaction masking policies
  • Use the Recovery Manager enhancements
  • Manage the database performance with monitoring DB operations, Real-Time ADDM and Compare Period ADDM
  • Compare two databases using Schema Change Plans to propagate changes from one environment to another
  • Use Data Comparisons to compare data across environments
  • Tune the SQL performance using Adaptive Execution Plans, SQL Plan Directives and statistics enhancements
  • Manage resources in a multitenant container database and pluggable databases with enhanced Resource Manager
  • Explore new Oracle Data Pump features and SQL*Loader Express Mode
  • Use online operations during partition movement and compression, and other DDL operations
  • Use partial global partitioned indexes
  • Explain new SQL enhancements such as extended data type column and SQL row limiting clause


Course Content:

Enterprise Manager and Other Tools

    Enterprise Manager (EM) Cloud Control home page
    Enterprise Manager Express home page versus Enterprise Manager Database Control
    SQL Developer with new functionalities
    OUI, DBCA

Basics of Multitenant Container Database (CDB)

    Benefits of the multitenant architecture
    Differences between the root container and pluggable database containers
    Structure of the root
    Structure of Pluggable Database (PDB)
    CDB_xxx and DBA_xxx views
    Impacts in Security, Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Streams, XStream, and Scheduler

Configuring and Creating CDB and PDBs

    Tools: DBCA and SQL*Plus
    Configuration and creation of CDB
    Exploring the Structure (CDB_xxx views and EM)
    Tools used: SQL Developer, DBCA and SQL*Plus
    Create a new PDB from PDB$SEED
    Create a PDB from a non-CDB
    Clone a PDB into the same CDB or into another CDB using DB links
    Plug in an unplugged PDB

Managing CDB and PDBs

    Connect to CDB as administrator
    Connect to a PDB using a service name
    Start up a CDB
    Open / Close a PDB (SQL*Plus, srvctl, EM)
    Open / Close all PDBs
    Shut down a CDB
    Triggers ON PLUGGABLE DATABASE
    Change PDB state

Managing Tablespaces, Common and Local Users, Privileges and Roles

    Create permanent tablespaces in the root and PDBs
    Manage common and local schemas and users in the root and PDBs
    Manage system and object privileges to common and local grantees granted 'commonly' or 'locally'
    Manage common and local roles granted 'commonly' or 'locally'

Managing Backup / Recovery / Flashback and Migration

    Backup a whole CDB
    Backup a PDB
    Recover CDB from redo log files, control files, undo datafiles loss
    Recover PDB from PDB datafiles loss
    Flashback at CDB level

Online Datafile Move and Automatic Data Optimization

    Data classification in 12c : tablespace, group, object, row levels
    Configure heat map
    Automatic movement and compression
    Compression levels and types
    Policy declaration: simple declarative SQL extension
    Customized automated action execution with user-defined function
    Execution in scheduled maintenance windows and by MMON
    Customized schedule with DBMS_ILM package

In-Database Archiving

    Challenges of old data in tables and 11g solutions
    In-database archiving new solutions
    Use ROW ARCHIVAL clause to enable row lifecycle state for applications
    Set ROW ARCHIVAL VISIBILITY for session level visibility control
    Use predicate on ORA_ARCHIVE_STATE column
    Temporal Validity versus Temporal History (Transaction Time of FDA)
    New clause of CREATE / ALTER TABLE to set a Temporal Validity: PERIOD FOR
    New SQL temporal data type

Auditing Enhancements

    Review of 11g R2 audit trail implementation
    Overview of the Unified Audit Trail
    Enabling the Unified Audit Trail
    Creating a separate tablespace for the unified audit trail
    Granting the AUDIT_ADMIN role to a user for audit trail configuration and management
    Configuring the Unified Audit Trail to set a tolerance level for loss of audit records
    Creating audit policies

Privileges Enhancements

    Implementing Separation of Duty for Database Administration Tasks
    Using Database Privilege Analysis
    Overview of Database Privilege Analysis
    Granting the CAPTURE_ADMIN role to enable management of privilege captures
    Creating and starting/stopping privilege captures
    Viewing privilege profile data
    Querying DBA_PRIV_CAPTURES
    Using mandatory INHERIT PRIVILEGES privilege to execute invoker's rights procedure

Oracle Data Redaction

    Overview of Oracle Data Redaction
    Types of Masking Policies
    Administering the EXEMPT REDACTION POLICY system privilege to enable a user to view unmasked values
    Managing Masking Policies
    Best practices for defining policy expressions
    Understanding Masking of Statements Containing Subqueries
    Viewing Information About Masking Policies by Querying REDACTION_POLICIES and REDACTION_COLUMNS

General RMAN New Features and FDA Enhancements

    Making Database Connections With RMAN
    Using the SYSBACKUP Privilege
    Using SQL, DESCRIBE Command, Duplication Operation with the NOOPEN option
    Backing up and Restoring Very Large Files
    Creating Multisection Backups
    Transporting Data Across Platforms
    Prerequisites and Limitations
    Transporting Data: Processing steps

Monitoring DB Operations

    Overview
    Use cases
    Current Tools
    Define a DB operation
    Monitoring: Bracketing an Operation
    Monitoring the Progress of Operations
    DB Operation Tuning
    DB Operation Active Report

Schema and Data Changes

    Explain the Schema Change Plan flow
    Change requests
    Schema synchronization
    Explain the Data Comparison flow
    DBMS_COMPARISON package
    Guidelines and steps
    Comparison job and results

SQL Tuning

    Adaptive Execution Plans
    SQL Plan Directives
    Statistics Gathering Performance Improvements
    Histogram Enhancements
    Enhancements to Extended Statistics
    Adaptive SQL Plan Management

Real-Time ADDM and Compare Period Advisor

    Emergency Monitoring
    Real time ADDM
    Use cases
    Goals
    Define Workload dimensions
    Reported items
    Root Causes
    Requirements for a report

Resource Manager and Other Performance Enhancements

    Manage resources between PDBs
    Manage resources within a PDB
    Manage resources with CDB and PDBs plans
    Manage runaway queries
    Automated maintenance tasks
    Describe the Multi-process Multi-threaded Oracle architecture
    Learn how to use this architecture in Oracle 12c Database
    Demonstrate the changes to shutdown procedures

Index and Table Enhancements

    Multiple indexes on the same set of columns as long as some characteristic is different
    Create table with INVISIBLE columns
    Support for invisible columns
    Advanced Row Compression
    Describe online redefinition supports
    Explain LOCK timeout during FINISH_REDEF_TABLE
    Using DDL statements in an online manner

ADR and Network Enhancements

    ADR file types
    New File types
    New File locations
    New commands for ADRCI
    Improve performance by Compression
    Setup Compression

Oracle Data Pump, SQL*Loader, External Tables and Online Operations Enhancements

    Use FULL Transportable export and import
    Oracle Data Pump enhancements
    SQL*Loader enhancements
    SQL*Loader and External table common enhancements
    SQL*Loader Express Mode usage

Partitioning Enhancements

    Move a partition online
    ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION, ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITION , ALTER TABLE...ADD PARTITION Clauses: Overview
    Split Partition Operation Enhancement
    ALTER TABLE SPLIT SUBPARTITION
    Merge Partition Operation
    Add Partition Operation
    Drop Partition Operation
    ALTER TABLE DROP SUBPARTITION

SQL Enhancements

    Enumerate Increase in the length limits for VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, and RAW data types in Oracle SQL to 32767 (32k) byte
    Enumerate miscellaneous enhancements
    Using SQL Row limiting clause in a query



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