OCM Preparation - 5 - Create and manage temporary, permanent, and undo tablespaces

Managing Tablespaces


Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - >  Managing Tablespaces

Managing Datafiles and Tempfiles

Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - > Managing Datafiles and Tempfiles

Managing Undo

Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - >  Managing Undo

OCM Preparation - 4 - Determine and set Sizing Parameters for Database Structures

Initialization Parameters.

Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - > Creating and Configuring an Oracle Database -> Specifying Initialization Parameters


Memory Configurations.
 Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - > Managing Memory


Changing the Database Archiving Mode

 Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - > Managing Archived Redo Logs -> Controlling Archiving

Changing the Database Archiving Mode using EM

Database Control Home -> Availability -> Recovery Settings.

Adding a Control File

Create pfile from spfile
Shutdown the database.
Copy existing control file to a new location.
Edit "control_file" parameter in pfile and add the new location.
Start the database with pfile.
Create spfile from pfile.
Restart the database.

Notes

How to check if the database was started with SPFILE or PFILE

SQL>SELECT DECODE(value, NULL, 'PFILE', 'SPFILE') "Init File Type"
FROM sys.v_$parameter
WHERE name = 'spfile';

How to check if the database is running on archive log mode.
SQL>archive log list

How to check session/process utilization.

SQL>select * from v$resource_limit where resource_name in ('processes','sessions');

OCM Preparation - 3 - Create the Database

Graphically

Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - > Creating and Configuring an Oracle Database -> Creating a Database with DBCA


Command Line

Documentation Library ->  Administrator's Guide - > Creating and Configuring an Oracle Database -> Creating a Database with the CREATE DATABASE Statement

Recommended Method: Create the database with DBCA

OCM Preparation - 2

Following steps will create the basic virtual environment to play with.

Download VMware Server and install it. 
Download Oracle Linux Release 5.4 (32-bit) at Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.
Create a virtual machine in VMware Server and install Oracle Linux. Check this out.
Download 11.2.0.3.0 patch set.
Patch ID=10404530. If you are not sure which files to download, Check this out.

Installation Type	Zip File
Oracle Database (includes Oracle Database and Oracle RAC)	p10404530_112030_platform_1of7.zip p10404530_112030_platform_2of7.zip
Oracle Grid Infrastructure (includes Oracle ASM, Oracle Clusterware, and Oracle Restart)	p10404530_112030_platform_3of7.zip
Oracle Database Client	p10404530_112030_platform_4of7.zip
Oracle Gateways	p10404530_112030_platform_5of7.zip
Oracle Examples	p10404530_112030_platform_6of7.zip
Deinstall	p10404530_112030_platform_7of7.zip

Install Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0  32-bit (Software Only).
Installation Guides: Oracle Oracle-Base

 Notes:
VNC Server is used.
Resize /dev/shm more than the value you want for MEMORY_MAX_TARGET.
mount -t tmpfs shmfs -o size=1.1G /dev/shm
To change tmpfs value permanently, change /etc/fstab as follows.

#tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs size=1g 0 0

OCM Preparation - 1

Exam Environment

• Oracle Linux Release 5.4 (32-bit)
• Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 (32-bit)
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Release 1 (11.1.0.1.0)  (32-bit)
• Non-Searchable Documentation

Exam Topics

Server Configuration

• Create the database
• Determine and set sizing parameters for database structures
• Create and manage temporary, permanent, and undo tablespaces
• Stripe data files across multiple physical devices and locations
• Configure the database environment to support optimal data access performance
• Create and manage database configuration files
• Create and manage bigfile tablespaces
• Create and Manage a tablespace that uses NFS mounted file system file  
• Create and manage multiple network configuration files
• Create and configure a listener
• Configure the database instance to support shared server connections
• Set up network tracing
• Manage Oracle network processes  
• Configure the network environment to allow connections to multiple databases
• Use configurationless connections
• Use OPatch to install a patch
• Use Grid Infrastructure to manage oracle databases and other resources
• Use Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant(EMCA) utility

Enterprise Manager Grid Control

• Install and Patch Enterprise Manager Grid Control software
• Configure the Enterprise Manager repository
• Create Enterprise Manager Grid Control users
• Use Enterprise Manager to modify a database configuration
• Configure Enterprise Manager to modify database availability
• Create and manage jobs
• Create and monitor alerts
• Create notifications
• Implement Grid Control and Database Control
• Choose the appropriate tablespace type for the intended use
• Create Scheduler jobs
• Create schedules
• Assign jobs to windows
• Create programs
• Create job classes
• Install the Enterprise Manager Grid Control infrastructure
• Deploy Enterprise Manager Grid Control agents
• Configure Grid Control for business requirements

Managing Database Availability

• Mantain recovery catalogs
• Configure Recovery Manager
• Use Recovery Manager to perform database backups
• Use Recover Manager to perform complete database restore and recovery operations
• Configure RMAN
• Create different types of RMAN backups to cater for different performance and retention requirements
• Set Flashback Database parameters
• Configure a Fast Recovery Area
• Perform various recovery operations using Flashback technology

Data Management

• Manage Materialized Views to improve rewrite and refresh performance
• Configure and manage distributed materialized views
• Create and Manage encrypted tablespaces
• Manage Transport of tablespaces across platforms
• Configure a schema to support a star transformation query
• Administer external tables
• Implement Data Pump export and import jobs for data transfer
• Implement Data Pump to and from remote databases  
• Configure and use parallel execution for queries
• Use SQL*Loader
• Administer, manage and tune parallel execution

Data Warehouse Management  

• Administer partitioned tables and indexes using appropriate methods and keys 
• Perform partition maintenance operations  
• Maintain indexes on a pa rtitioned table
• Implement securefile LOB
• Create and manage LOB segments  
• Implement fine-grained access control  
• Create and manage contexts
• Administer flashback data archive and schema evolution

Performance Management  

• Administer Resource Manager 
• Use Result Cache 
• Use multi column statistics 
• Gather statistics on a specific table without invalidating cursors 
• Use partitioned indexes 
• Administer and tune schema object to support various access methods 
• Interpret execution plan  
• Use SQL tuning tools and features 
• Use SQL Tuning Advisor 
• Use SQL Access Advisor 
• Use SQL Performance Analyzer
• Configure baseline templates  
• Use SQL Plan Management feature
• Implement instance caging 

Grid Infrastructure and ASM

• Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 
• Create ASM Disk Groups 
• Create and manage as ASM instance
• Implement ASM failure groups
• Creating ACFS File System   
• Start, stop, configure and administer Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Real Application Clusters  

• Install the Oracle Database 11gR2 software
• Configure ASM for the shared disks and create a clustered database   
• Configure archiving  
• Configure services using both Manual and Policy Managed methods 

Data Guard  

• Create Physical Standby Database with real-time apply. 
• Configure the data guard environment to reduce overheads of fast incremental backups on the primary database 
• Configure the Observer 
• Switchover and switch back  
• Configure connect time failover
• Convert the standby to a snapshot standby 
• Configure archivelog deletion policy for the Dataguard configuration

This will be used as the base documentation for this series, hereafter.