Oracle Installation and Management in a nutshell

Installation

• Pre-Installation checks:

• Ignore the result:./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs

Installation - OUI checks

Installation

Oracle Database 11g Installation Changes• Addition of new products to the install

• SQL Developer• Movement of APEX from companion CD to main CD• Warehouse Builder (server-side pieces)• Oracle Configuration Management (OCM)• New Transparent Gateways

• Removal of certain products and features from the installation:• OEM Java Console• Oracle Data Mining Scoring Engine• Oracle Workflow• iSQL*Plus

Enterprise Manager 11g

• Database Control

Parameters

• Classes of parameters

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228

AdvancedParameters

29

BasicParameters

Automated Routine Tasks: Backup & Recovery

• Use RMAN • Use Unified Scheduler to configure

regular, scheduled backups• Use Recovery Area for on-disk backups

• Recovery Area is self-managing• old files aged out, current files

maintained • Perform incremental backups

• Only changed blocks backed up — fast and space efficient

• Backed up files can be merged with the original

• You perform a full database backup only once! Work Area Recovery Area

WeeklyArchiveTo Tape

ProductionDatabase

Nightly ApplyIncremental

Backup

Logs &Backups

• System statistics (statistics_level=typical)• Every 60 minutes statistical data will be collected, analyzed

and kept for 7 days by default• Additionally data will be collected and evaluated for active

sessions • Changes on data inside the database will be monitored in the

background• Default jobs

• Object statistics• Free up segments

Automated Routine Tasks

Default Jobs

• 2 default jobs run once a day in a specified time frame:• GATHER_STATS_JOB:

Gathering of statistics for the whole database• AUTO_SPACE_ADVISOR_JOB:

Find out segments with space to free up and with many migrated rows

Instant Client

• For OCI-, OCCI-, Pro*C, ODBC- and JDBC-applications

• No Oracle client installation necessary• Most simple deployment

• Download from OTN• Copy it to the target systems• Set TNS_ADMIN• That's all ...*

• http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html

* For ODBC a batch file has to be executed because the Windows ODBC management has to be notified

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