... acquisitions, but two applications remain
predominant. The Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of applications
based around an accounting engine and Oracle Collaboration Suite is ... application and database? Is it possible to put a
financial figure on this?
The result of this study should give an idea of how critical the DBA’
s role is.
CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVE 1.02
Explain ... exercise, with no specific solution.
Identify the applications, application servers, and databases used in your environment.
Then, concentrating on the databases, try to get a feeling for how big...
... notation vary across organizations—the example
given is very basic. Entity-relationship diagrams for applications with hundreds or
thousands of entities can be challenging to interpret.
EXERCISE ... Francisco,
CA 94105
Storing the data in this table gives rise to several anomalies. First, here is the
insertion anomaly: it is impossible to enter details of authors who are not yet
SCENARIO ... design can handle. Also, the storage is very inefficient due to replication
of address details across rows, and the possibility of error as this data is repeatedly
entered is high. Normalization...
... certification tracks—this book is concerned with the
Oracle DatabaseAdministration certification track, specifically for release 11g of the
database. There are three levels of DBA certification: ... model business data into a form suitable for storing in
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INTRODUCTION
T
here is an ever-increasing demand for staff with IT industry certification. The benefits
to employers are significant—they ... submits calls for
data retrieval and modification to the database for execution. The Oracle Enterprise
Manager is a comprehensive administration tool for monitoring, managing, and
tuning the Oracle...
... certification, or recertification, please visit Oracle s certification web site
(http://www .oracle. com/education/certification).
This book will help you in your endeavor to upgrade your Oracle ...
Management
CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVES
1.01 Installing OracleDatabase 11g
1.02 New Features in Database Creation
1.03 Upgrading to OracleDatabase 11g
1.04 Real Application Testing
✓
Two-Minute Drill
Q&A
... CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVE 1.01
Installing OracleDatabase 11g
In this section, let’s review the important changes in the installation of the Oracle
Database 11g server software. These changes include...
... technical editor) is a technical director in the
Oracle Advanced Technologies Solutions organization with more than 20 years
experience specializing in RAC, performance tuning, and high-availability ... 331
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This book is dedicated to my family and friends.
You are a blessing indeed.
About the Author
Kevin Loney is an internationally recognized expert in the design, development,
administration, ... as it is stored
on disk. See Chapter 20 for details on the implementation of VPD.
In addition to securing access to the data, you can audit activities in the database. Auditable
events include...
... create private
optimizer statistics. Another optimizer-related new initialization parameter,
optimizer_use_invisible_indexes, enables you to manage
invisible indexes, as discussed in Chapter ... security-related initialization parameters are assigned default values.
Role and Privilege Changes
Oracle Database11g seeks to demarcate databaseadministration and ASM
administration. Oracle ... requiring ASM administrators to have the SYSASM system privilege.
An OracleDatabase11g Installation
There are no major innovations in the installation process itself in OracleDatabase
11g, ...
...
sample database.
As part of the Windows installation, Oracle installs an OracleAdministration Assistant (in the
Start menu structure, it is available under the Oracle configuration and migration ... Oracle Spatial, Oracle OLAP,
Oracle Label Security, and Oracle Data Mining.
Standard Edition This edition provides a good subset of the features of the Enterprise
Edition, generally including ... business will need.
Personal Edition This edition allows for development of applications that will run on
either the Standard or Enterprise Edition. This edition cannot be used in a production...
... Introducing SQL
the column. Oracle has several built-in datatypes to store different kinds of data. In this
section, I will go over the built-in datatypes available in Oracle 11g. Detailed discussion ... PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
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Administration I Assessment Test
26. Which initialization parameter determines the window of flashback database operation?
A. ... subject to change at any time without prior notice and
at Oracle s sole discretion. Please visit Oracle s Training and Certification
website at
http://education .oracle. com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/...
... MUSKETEERS
ali and*41*thieves ALI AND*41*THIEVES
mississippi MISSISSIPPI
mister INDIA MISTER INDIA
Using Single-Row Numeric Functions
When you think of numeric functions, the tasks that come to mind are ... MUSKetEERS
ali and*41*thieves ALI AND*41*THIEVES
mississippi MISSISSIPPI
mister INDIA MISTER india
TRIM
TRIM([[c1] c2 FROM ] c3)
can take three arguments, where
c2
and
c3
are character strings.
If ... and*41*thieves
mississippi mississippi
mister INDIA mister india
LPAD
LPAD(c1, i [,c2])
takes three arguments, where
c1
and
c2
are character strings and
i
is
an integer. This function returns...
... NUMBER(precision,scale)
DECIMAL(precision,scale) IBM NUMBER(precision,scale)
DOUBLE PRECISION ANSI NUMBER
FLOAT(binary) ANSI, IBM NUMBER
INT ANSI NUMBER(38)
INTEGER ANSI, IBM NUMBER(38)
NUMERIC(precision,scale) ... 142
Compiler Warnings 145
Optimizing Compiler 147
Performing Native Compilation of PL/SQL 149
Cursors in PL/SQL
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Declaring explicit cursors
To use an explicit cursor, you must first declare it in ... string depicting a
logical, physical, or non -Oracle row identifier. Valid sizes are up to
4000 bytes.
Family Description
Database Interaction
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COMMIT
COMMIT [WORK] [comment_text];
COMMIT makes...
... partitioning types include hash partitioning (used to divide data
into partitions using a hashing function and providing an even distribution of data)
and list partitioning (enabling partitioning ... described in the following subsections.
Partitioning option
Oracle introduced partitioning as an option with Oracle8 to provide a higher degree
of manageability and availability. Youcan take individual ... standalone Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition
Suite.
Oracle s flagship product in this area is Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edi-
tion Suite (OBI EE) originally consisting of...
... locator. This function is used to initialize a BFILE
variable or BFILE column in a table. When this function is used, the BFILE is instantiated.
Neither
dir
nor
file
needs to exist at the time ... where
n
is a numeric datatype. This function returns –1 if
n
is negative, 1 if
n
is positive, and 0 if
n
is 0.
SELECT SIGN(-2.3), SIGN(0), SIGN(47)
FROM dual;
SIGN(-2.3) SIGN(0) SIGN(47)
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Using Single-Row Functions
Numeric
Code
Format-Code Description
EEEE
Scientific notation.
MI
Negative as a trailing minus. Can appear only in the last position...
... session identifier.
ENTRYID
ÛN
returns the auditing entry identifier if auditing is enabled for the instance (the
init.ora
parameter
AUDIT_TRAIL
is set to
TRUE
).
INSTANCE
ÛN
returns the instance ... numeric constant
values and
col_list
is the comma-delimited list of column expressions.
CUME_DIST
returns
the cumulative distribution of a value in
val_list
within a distribution in
col_list
.
The ...
NULL
if the session is a fore-
ground session. See also
FG_JOB_ID
.
CLIENT_IDENTIFIER
Returns the client session identifier in the global context. It can
be set with the
DBMS_SESSION
built-in...