Oracle DBA Tutorials

Oracle DBA (Database Administrator) Tutorials

In this Oracle DBA Tutorials For Beginners and Professionals series, we covered all the concepts of Oracle DBA with Real-Time Examples. You will learn from the very basic to the advanced level features of Oracle DBA (Database Administrator) as you progress in this Course.

Hello and welcome to this Oracle Database Administration Tutorials Course. These Oracle DBA Tutorials will take you through most of the practical applications of Database Administration.

Oracle is one of the main database tools that is used in the job market, and the ability to being able to do DBA for Oracle could be very useful for your current work, and your next job hunt.

How do we Design this Oracle DBA Course?

In this course, we will start with the introduction to Oracle Database and we will show you the different editions of Oracle and which edition we are going to use. We’ll also show you how to download and install Oracle Database for free. We’ll start by creating a demonstration database, learning how to backup and restore the database, and what recovery models are appropriate for other databases, to enable you to offer Point in Time recovery.

We’ll manage logins and server roles, so you can control who gets access to what data, implement and maintain indexes, so you can speed up searches, and import and export data. We’ll look at managing and configuring databases, and look at compression, both of which aid with administrating big databases. And much more.

The course is fairly relaxed – there will be a few “wrong turns”, so you can see what problems might arise, but every lesson works towards an end goal at a relatively slow pace, so you can follow on your own computer easily. I assume that you know how to use a computer, including installing programs, but the actual DBA will be at a basic level, and I’ll introduce every component as we go on.

Oracle DBA Roles and Responsibilities

As an Oracle DBA,  you have to perform the following tasks,

1. Maintaining the availability of the database by minimizing downtime.
2. In data recovery, we have to minimize data loss in case of failures by implementing high availability.
3. Provide high security in accessing the databases externally.
4. Need to monitor the performance of the server, and implement various techniques to increase the performance
5. Regularly monitor database growth, disk space Logs, and Event viewer logs to avoid issues and to identify any bottlenecks.

DBA Roles / Daily Activities:

1. As part of the Oracle DBA team, you need to provide 24/7 production support to clients and users.
2. Work on user requirements and problems that come in the form of tickets.
3. Responding to alerts that we receive in the form of an email from third-party monitoring tools.
4. Make sure all the maintenance jobs are running successfully.
5. Make sure all backup jobs are executed successfully without any issues on all servers.
6. Checking Logs to identify bottlenecks.
7. Checking drive spaces on critical servers to ensure that there is an ample amount of space
8. Regularly monitor data file growth, log file growth, and database growth as part of capacity planning.
9. Maintain documentation of all the tasks and issues that you encounter for future reference.

What you will learn in this Oracle Database Administrator Course?

We will be looking at the following things

1. Backup and Restore
2. Managed Logins and Server Roles
3. Implement and maintain Indexes
4. Import and Export Data
5. Manage and Configure Databases
6. Compression
7. Identify and Resolve Concurrency Problems
8. Collect and Analyse Troubleshooting Data
9. Implement a Migration Strategy and many more.

At the end of this course, you will be much more versed in what it means to be an Oracle Database Administrator. I hope you are going to be as excited as me to go into the world of Oracle DBA.

Are There Any Course Requirements or Prerequisites?

1. You don’t need any prior Oracle DBA knowledge prior to taking this course.
2. It would be helpful if you knew how to create simple SQL statements (SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY) for some parts of the course, but not essential
3. You will need a Windows computer. We will be installing Oracle Database and Database Instance on our computer.

Who this course is for?

1. This course is for you if you want practice experience in Oracle Database Administration
2. No prior experience with SQL is required, although the more knowledge you have, the better.

What do we expect from you?

We will do our level best to cover all the Oracle Database Administrator concepts, but in the meantime, if you have any specific topic in your mind or if we miss any concepts or topics that you want us to cover, then please leave it as a comment in the comment box, and we will definitely discuss that topic(s) in this Oracle DBA Tutorials course.

Finally, Last but Not Least your valuable feedback is important and means a lot to us. So, if you have a few minutes, then please let us know your thoughts and feedback on this Oracle DBA Course.