An instructor’s guide for teaching Oracle DBA certification candidates, this book is highly technical and written for Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) DBA instructors who want to ensure that their students successfully pass their Oracle OCP certification exam. Covering those OCP topics that students find the most challenging,...
More than ever before, today's Oracle DBA faces a database farm that is growing both in physical size and actual numbers. To keep these databases up and performing at exceptional levels, the database administrator needs more than a cobbled together set of scripts that they use to (hopefully) verify that everything is in order.
In many Oracle shops today third-party applications are the norm. The major problem for DBAs with these third-party applications is that you are not allowed to alter the source code of the SQL used within the application. Many times the application will generate SQL statements in an ad-hoc manner that further complicates the tuning picture....
