Oracle Database 11g: Change Management Overview Seminar

The adage that "Change is constant" holds true especially in the information technology world. While change can bring improvements, it also brings disruptions. This one day seminar focuses on the Oracle Database 11g Release 1 innovations which enable you to mitigate the chaos that database and application upgrades can wrought. In this course, you will learn about the features you can use to record production workloads then play them back in a test environment so that you can determine and eliminate potential issues before you deploy these changes to your production environment. The instructor lecture is supported by recorded product demonstrations. By attending this course, you can more effectively realize the positive benefits of database and application upgrades, while minimizing the negative side effects.

Learn to:

• Make indexes invisible to test potential plan changes
• Setup the Automatic Diagnostic Repository
• Use Recovery Advisor to analyze critical SQL statement failures
• Set up snapshot standby for database testing

A Live Virtual Class (LVC) is exclusively for registered students; unregistered individuals may not view an LVC at any time. Registered students must view the class from the country listed in the registration form. Unauthorized recording, copying, or transmission of LVC content may not be made.

Audience

• Database Designers
• Project Manager
• Support Engineer
• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Technical Consultant
• Database Administrators

Course Topics Introduction

• Oracle Database 11g: Main Focus Areas
• Oracle Database 11g: New Features Overview Seminar
• Oracle Database 11g: Change Management Overview Seminar
• Management Automation
• Self-Managing Database: The Next Generation
• Suggested Additional Courses
• Further Information

Realistic Testing

• Challenges Faced by DBAs When Performing Changes
• Change Is the Only Constant
• Life Cycle of Change Management
• Setting Up the Test Environment by Using the Snapshot Standby Database
• Benefits of Snapshot Standby
• Using SQL to Create a Snapshot Standby Database
• Using DGMGRL to Create a Snapshot Standby Database
• Viewing Snapshot Standby Database Information

Realistic Testing

• Managing Change in Oracle Database
• Managing Change Effectively
• Why Use Database Replay?
• Database Replay
• System Architecture: Capture
• System Architecture: Processing the Workload
• System Architecture: Replay
• The Big Picture

Realistic Testing

• SQL Performance Analyzer
• Capturing the SQL Workload
• Creating a SQL Tuning Set
• Exporting the SQL Workload
• Creating a SQL Performance Analyzer Task
• Optimizer Upgrade Simulation
• SQL Performance Analyzer: Task Page
• Guided Workflow

Provisioning Automation: Performing Online Changes

• Online Application Maintenance
• Online Table Redefinition
• Redefinition and Materialized View
• Using PL/SQL to Redefine a Table
• Fine-Grained Dependency Management
• Minimizing Dependent PL/SQL Recompilation
• More Precise Dependency Metadata
• Managing Dependencies

Provisioning Automation: Using SQL Plan Management

• SQL Plan Management: Overview
• SQL Plan Baseline Architecture
• Loading SQL Plan Baselines
• Important Baseline SQL Plan Attributes
• SQL Plan Selection
• Possible SQL Plan Manageability Scenarios
• SQL Performance Analyzer and SQL Plan Baseline Scenario
• Automatic SQL Plan: Baseline Scenario

Provisioning Automation: Diagnosing Problems

• Oracle Database 11g Fault Management
• Ease Diagnosis: Automatic Diagnostic Workflow
• Automatic Diagnostic Repository
• ADRCI: ADR Command-Line Tool
• V$DIAG_INFO
• Location for Diagnostic Traces
• Using ADRCI to View the Alert Log
• Incident Packaging Service (IPS)

Provisioning Automation: Installing Patches

• Hot Patching: Overview
• Installing a Hot Patch
• Benefits of Hot Patching
• Conventional Patching and Hot Patching
• Hot Patching Considerations

Course Objectives

• Effectively use SQL Performance Analyzer
• Use Database Replay
• Setup and use SQL Plan Manageability
• Create an incident package to capture diagnostic data
• Use Online patching