Preface

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Organization

• Related Documentation

• Conventions

• Documentation Accessibility

Audience

Oracle Database 2 Day DBA is for anyone who wants to learn common day-to-day administrative tasks with the Oracle Database. Prior knowledge or experience with managing databases is not required. The only requirement is a basic knowledge of computers.

In particular this book is targeted toward the following groups of Oracle users:

• Developers wanting to acquire part-time DBA skills

• Anyone managing departmental servers

• Database administrators managing an Oracle database for small or medium business (SMB)

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

Organization

This document contains:

This chapter contains an brief overview of Oracle database administration.

This chapter discusses how to install the Oracle software and database. It also describes how to configure additional databases, and how to upgrade and older version of a database to the current version.

This chapter introduces you to the Oracle Enterprise Manager and how to use it.

This chapter discusses how to configure a network so that clients can access your databases.

This chapter discusses starting and stopping the database instance, and managing initialization parameters.

This chapter discusses management of the database's storage structure.

This chapter discusses how to add and maintain user accounts. It includes information about using system privileges and roles to control user access to the database.

This chapter discusses managing tables, indexes, and other schema objects.

This chapter discusses how to backup and recover your database.

This chapter discusses monitoring database activities and diagnosing performance problems.

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 SQL Reference

• Oracle Database Reference

• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Basics

• Oracle Database Backup and Recovery Advanced User's Guide

• Oracle Database Installation Guide for Windows

• Oracle Database 10g Installation Guide, Release 1 (10.1) Beta for UNIX Systems: AIX-Based Systems, HP-UX, HP Tru64 UNIX, Linux, and the Solaris Operating System (SPARC)

Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information on how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.

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Conventions

This section describes the conventions used in the text and code examples of this documentation set. It describes:

• Conventions in Text

• Conventions in Code Examples

• Conventions for Windows Operating Systems

We use various conventions in text to help you more quickly identify special terms. The following table describes those conventions and provides examples of their use.

Code examples illustrate SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, or other command-line statements. They are displayed in a monospace (fixed-width) font and separated from normal text as shown in this example:

SELECT username FROM dba_users WHERE username = 'MIGRATE';

The following table describes typographic conventions used in code examples and provides examples of their use.

[ ]

DECIMAL (digits [ , precision ])

{ }

{ENABLE | DISABLE}

|

{ENABLE | DISABLE}
[COMPRESS | NOCOMPRESS]

...

CREATE TABLE ... AS subquery;

SELECT col1, col2, ... , coln FROM employees;

.
 .
 .

SQL> SELECT NAME FROM V$DATAFILE;
NAME
------------------------------------
/fsl/dbs/tbs_01.dbf
/fs1/dbs/tbs_02.dbf
.
.
.
/fsl/dbs/tbs_09.dbf
9 rows selected.

acctbal NUMBER(11,2);
acct    CONSTANT NUMBER(4) := 3;

Italics

CONNECT SYSTEM/system_password
DB_NAME = database_name

UPPERCASE

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
SELECT * FROM USER_TABLES;
DROP TABLE hr.employees;

lowercase

SELECT last_name, employee_id FROM employees;
sqlplus hr/hr
CREATE USER mjones IDENTIFIED BY ty3MU9;

The following table describes conventions for Windows operating systems and provides examples of their use.

c:\winnt"\"system32 is the same as C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32

C:\oracle\oradata>

C:\>exp scott/tiger TABLES=emp QUERY=\"WHERE job='SALESMAN' and sal<1600\"
C:\>imp SYSTEM/password FROMUSER=scott TABLES=(emp, dept)

HOME_NAME

C:\> net start OracleHOME_NAMETNSListener

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/