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Dashcourses' PowerHour on Oracle 11g New Features

Do you need to determine whether Oracle 11g is what your organization should be moving to? Or perhaps the decision has been made and you want to understand what all the features are that make 11g different?

If you have an hour, Dashcourses International will provide you with that insight using our online virtual classroom. Our Oracle 11g New Features PowerHour on September 25th at 12:00 noon EDT, discusses whether it's really worth upgrading. Join us for an exciting feature-packed overview of Oracle Database 11g New Features. This brief discussion will leave you equipped to determine when an Oracle 11g upgrade is right for you!

Features discussed include:

Encrypted Tablespaces
Client Side Cache
Server Results Cache (JIT-MV)
PL/SQL Function results cache
New uses for Standby Databases
Database Replay
Data Recovery Advisor
DataPump compression
Virtual columns
Enhancements to Partitioning
PIVOT Function in Queries
Flashback Data Archive
Enhancements to Dependency Tracking
Eliminating Unnecessary Recompilation of PL/SQL Objects
Table Data Compression
Compound Triggers
Invisible Indexes
Blocking DDL
Read Only Tables

Online Oracle 10g Admin II Training Oct 27-31, 2008

One of the most challenging tasks ever presented to database administrators is that of recovery from failure, especially if the recovery must not result in a loss of any data. This course presents all the standard failure scenarios and the best recovery strategies for each. Strategies for on-line backups, complete and incomplete recovery, media recovery vs. flashback database recovery and many other subjects are discussed. Extensive exercises allow students to simulate failures and perform actual recovery within the workshop.

Additionally, some of the most exciting new technologies ever released by Oracle are considered within this course. Subjects like the Database Scheduler, Flashback operations, Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and many others are included. This course book is filled with in-depth conceptual diagrams, hundreds of actual code examples, detailed exercises and complete solutions.

Course Objectives

The overall objective of this course is to bring database administrators beyond a basic understanding of their environment and to focus attention on more advanced skills needed to effectively configure, administer, monitor and tune the database. Specific subjects to be considered are:

• Using flashback technology to recover from user errors and from database failures.
• Controlling resource utilization on database servers whose resource demand exceeds its capacity.
• Automating routine tasks and functions using the database Scheduler.
• Handling database corruption and even preventing such occurrences wherever possible.
• Utilizing diagnostic sources in troubleshooting database problems.
• Automatic database management, monitoring and tuning facilities. Included is automatic management of storage space and memory resources within the database.
• Automatic resumption of database operations even in the face of failures and errors.
• User-managed and automatically managed backup strategies and database recovery operations.

Audience

Target audience for this course is Oracle database administrators.

Mandatory Prerequisites

• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL - Complete Library
• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: Program with PL/SQL - Complete Library
• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: Adminstration l

Suggested Next Courses

There are various courses that could be taken as a followup to this course that feature data warehouse issues, advanced tuning techniques, or for help with common operating systems used for Oracle database servers, please consider the following courses:

For Data Warehouse Issues

Administrators should proceed onto more focused and specialized courses with these modules:

• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: Implement Parallel SQL & Partitioning
• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: Data Warehouses l

For Advanced Tuning Techniques

• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: SQL Tuning
• The Dashcourses International course Oracle Database 10g: Advanced PL/SQL Programming & Tuning

Common OS for Oracle Database Servers

For Help With the Most Common Operating Systems used for Oracle database servers, please consider the courses contained in the following Dashcourses International curricula:

• The Dashcourses International Ccrriculum Linux Enterprise Administration
• The Dashcourses International curriculum Windows Server

This course will be conducted using Dashcourses’ new Virtual Learning Environment classroom. We designed this industry-leading facility to provide you with a training environment that is not only economical, it is as effective and interactive as having a real live instructor standing right next to you.

Date/Time: Oct 27 - 31, 2008
Location: Your computer
More Information and to Register: http://www.dashcourses.com/public-courses.html

Oracle 10g Administrator I Online Training Sep 22-26, 2008

The overall objective of this course is to allow the reader to gain the skills necessary for basic day-to-day administration of an Oracle10g database. This course is the starting point for Oracle database administrators and also the foundation for advanced administrator training and certification.

Target Audience

The target audience for this course is Oracle database administrators. Additionally, senior database developers will benefit from an understanding of the architecture of the Oracle database with which they interface.

Course Prerequisites

Mandatory prerequisites for this course are the following Dashcourses International courses:

• ORACLE DATABASE 10G: INTRODUCTION TO SQL - COMPLETE LIBRARY
• ORACLE DATABASE 10G: PROGRAM WITH PL/SQL - PART II

Suggested Next Course

This course should be considered the first part of the Dashcourses International integrated database administrator curriculum. Therefore, in the not-too-distant future one should proceed to the follow-up course ORACLE DATABASE 10G: ADMINISTRATION II.
This course will be conducted using Dashcourses’ new Virtual Learning Environment classroom. We designed this industry-leading facility to provide you with a training environment that is not only economical, it is as effective and interactive as having a real live instructor standing right next to you.

Date/Time: Sep 22-26, 2008
Location: Your computer
More Information and to Register: http://www.dashcourses.com/public-courses.html