... the Oracle Database 11g software, create
Oracle databases, and upgrade databases. Chapter 9, which covers Oracle software installation,
shows how to install the Oracle Database 11g database server. ... Become an Oracle DBA
As you start out on your journey to become a proficient Oracle DBA, you have many sources of infor-
mation on the Oracle database:
Oracle Data...
...
an Oracle database
3 86
Plan an Oracle database installation 3 101
Install the Oracle software by using the Oracle
Universal Installer (OUI)
3 110
Creating an Oracle Database
Create a database ... attaining.
There are several Oracle certification tracks—this book is concerned with the
Oracle Database Administration certification track, specifically for release 11...
... you to internationalize
your Oracle database system. NLS internationalizations include date representations, char-
acter sets, alphabets, and alphabetical ordering.
Oracle will implicitly or automatically ... to a numeric or datetime value. Character datatypes in Oracle 11g are
CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, and CLOB. Numeric datatypes in Oracle
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Chapter
3
Using Group
Functions
ORACLE DATABASE 11g:
SQL FUNDAMENTALS I EXAM OBJECTIVES
COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
Reporting Aggregated ... use to calculate space usage in a database.
The
DBA_SEGMENTS
dictionary view shows the segments allocated in the database each
table or index created in the database must have at leas...
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Chapter
4
Using Joins and
Subqueries
ORACLE DATABASE 11g:
SQL FUNDAMENTALS I EXAM OBJECTIVES
COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER
Displaying data from multiple ... execute a join of three or more tables, Oracle takes these steps:
1.
Oracle joins two of the tables based on the join conditions, comparing their columns.
2.
Oracle joins...
... This support is germane only to
multiuser databases, where one database session can change (and commit) data that is being
read by another session.
Oracle always uses statement-level consistency, ...
TRUNCATE
statement, as described in the next section.
TRUNCATE
is not included in the Oracle Database
11g SQL Fundamentals I exam, but I’ve included it here for completeness.
Tru...
... altered.
In Oracle 11g, when you add a column with the
NOT NULL
constraint and the
DEFAULT
value, Oracle 11g does not update all the existing rows in the table with the default value.
Oracle 11g ... tables and constraints on tables.
Database Objects Overview
Data in the Oracle Database is stored in tables. A table is the main database object. Many
other database obj...
... 1 |
| 2 | INDEX FAST FULL SCAN| INVENTORY_IX | 1112 |
Oracle used the
INVENTORY_IX
index to get the result. You can see here that Oracle did not
read the table to get the result; only the ... unique indexes, each column value entry is unique. Oracle guarantees that the
combination of all index column values in the composite index is unique. Oracle returns an
error if you try to...