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Oracle 11g database articles, tutorials and training for Database Administrators (DBAs)

Oracle 11g Administration

Database administration, Materialized Views, Database Migration, Replication, Automatic Storage Management (ASM)

Oracle Indexing - What, Where, When? : If you are new to databases, or perhaps new to Oracle, you may find the discussion on indexes and indexing strategy complicated. Don't fret. To get started it's fairly straightforward, and as long as you pay attention to the options relevant to day-to-day DBA needs, it should remain fairly simple.

Oracle 11g Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Oracle RAC 64 bit for Windows: Preparing the Virtual environment : Part 4 of this series covers installing Oracle 11g RAC on a 64 bit Windows system using Windows 2003 Service Pack 2.

Open Source Virtualization: Oracle VM Manager Installation : Part three of this series covers how to install the Oracle VM Manager on your Workstation skeleton.

Open Source Virtualization: Oracle VM enters the Virtualization arena : Part 2 of this series covers downloading Oracle VMServer, VM Manager and VM Source Files, converting the Oracle VM files into ISO files, creating an ESX compatible skeleton and installing the Oracle VM.

Installing Oracle 11g RAC on VMware ESX 3i - Part1 : This article covers installing Oracle 11g RAC on the VMware workstation in ESX 3.x compatibility mode, in anticipation of the release of ESX 3i.

Using Orion Calibration to check I/O numbers : Orion is an I/O metrics testing tool, designed specifically to simulate the I/O workload before installing Oracle RAC on the hardware. It is ideal for capacity planning and checking DAS, SAN or NAS storage. Read on to learn more.

Oracle 11g Performance Features

Oracle Database 11g: Database Replay, Part 1 : This article provides a primer for using Oracle 11g Database Replay to effectively predict the performance of rapidly changing applications within increasingly fluid database environments.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Plan Management, Part 3 : The final article in this series illustrates how to use SPM to limit unexpected regression of existing SQL statement performance before those statements first encounter Oracle 11g’s cost-based optimizer.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Plan Management, Part 2 : Part 2 of this series explains how SQL Plan Management can be used during the upgrade of an existing Oracle 10gR2 database to an Oracle 11g environment, as well as during the deployment of brand new application code, to effectively limit unexpected regression of SQL statement performance.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Plan Management, Part 1 : This article - the first in this series - provides a primer to SQL Plan Management principles and offers a simple demonstration of its performance tuning capabilities.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Performance Analyzer, Part 3 : This article - the final one in this series- explores how the SQL Performance Analyzer can effectively analyze changes in SQL statement performance due to modified database initialization parameters.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Performance Analyzer, Part 2 : This article - the next in a series on new Oracle Database 11g SQL performance improvement features - discusses how to use the SQL Performance Analyzer to evaluate a SQL workload generated from an Oracle 10gR2 database to detect potential performance issues for that workload if it were executed within an Oracle 11g database system.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Performance Analyzer, Part 1 : This article – the first in a series on new Oracle Database 11g SQL performance improvement features – reviews how to set up and utilize these features and provides a simple simulation of how SQL Performance Analyzer can detect changes to an Oracle 11g database system.

Oracle 11g Tools, Features and Enhancements

New tools, features and enhancements in Oracle 11g.

Oracle Database 11g: Automatic SQL Tuning : This article delves into a new Oracle Database 11g feature that significantly extends this powerful 10g feature by providing the ability to implement improved execution plans automatically within DBA-specified boundaries.

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 New Features Summary, Part 2 : Oracle Database 11g Release 1 was launched in mid-July 2007. This second article in a two-part series takes some tantalizing glimpses into the upcoming improvements to database performance and database management that expand even further the revolutionary concepts introduced in Oracle Database 10g.

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 New Features Summary, Part 1 : Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11gR1) is due to be released in July 2007. Although not all new features have been fully documented yet, this article - the first in this series - takes some tantalizing glimpses into the upcoming improvements to database performance and management.

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