Preface

Oracle Database 2 Day DBA is a database administration quick start guide that teaches you how to perform day-to-day database administrative tasks. The goal of this book is to help you understand the concepts behind Oracle Database. It teaches you how to perform all common administration tasks needed to keep the database operational, including how to perform basic troubleshooting and performance monitoring activities.

Audience

Oracle Database 2 Day DBA is for anyone who wants to perform basic administrative tasks with Oracle Database. Only minimal basic knowledge of or experience with database management is required, and a basic knowledge of computers.

In particular, this guide is for the following groups of Oracle users:

• Developers who want to acquire basic database administrator (DBA) skills

• Anyone managing database servers

• Database administrators managing an Oracle database for a small or medium-sized business

This book is equally useful for enterprise DBAs. It recommends best practices and describes efficient ways of performing administrative tasks with Oracle Enterprise Manager as the primary interface.

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Related Documentation

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Advanced Configuration

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database Reference

• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery User's Guide

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation Guide for Linux and UNIX or other operating system

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle Clusterware Administration and Deployment Guide

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Installation Guide

There are also several other 2 Day + books available for a variety of topics:

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Data Warehousing Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Data Replication and Integration Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Performance Tuning Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + High Availability Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + .NET Developer's Guide for Microsoft Windows

• Oracle Database 2 Day + PHP Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Application Express Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Java Developer's Guide

Many of the examples in this guide use the sample schemas, which are installed by default when you select the Basic Installation option with an Oracle Database installation. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them.

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Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: