In the Oracle Database 12c: New Features for Administrators course, you’ll learn about the new and enhanced features of Oracle Database 12c. Expert instructors will teach you how these features increase security, manageability and performance.

Topics Covered

Enterprise Manager and Other Tools Enterprise Manager (EM) Cloud Control home page Enterprise Manager Express home page versus Enterprise Manager Database Control SQL Developer with new functionalities OUI, DBCA Basics of Multitenant Container Database (CDB) Benefits of the multitenant architecture Differences between the root container and pluggable database containers Structure of the root Structure of Pluggable Database (PDB) CDB_xxx and DBA_xxx views Impacts in Security, Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Streams, XStream, and Scheduler Configuring and Creating CDB and PDBs Tools: DBCA and SQL*Plus Configuration and creation of CDB Exploring the Structure (CDB_xxx views and EM) Tools used: SQL Developer, DBCA and SQL*Plus Create a new PDB from PDB$SEED Create a PDB from a non-CDB Clone a PDB into the same CDB or into another CDB using DB links Plug in an unplugged PDB Managing CDB and PDBs Connect to CDB as administrator Connect to a PDB using a service name Start up a CDB Open / Close a PDB (SQL*Plus, srvctl, EM) Open / Close all PDBs Shut down a CDB Triggers ON PLUGGABLE DATABASE Change PDB state Managing Tablespaces, Common and Local Users, Privileges and Roles Create permanent tablespaces in the root and PDBs Manage common and local schemas and users in the root and PDBs Manage system and object privileges to common and local grantees granted "commonly" or "locally" Manage common and local roles granted "commonly" or "locally" Managing Backup / Recovery / Flashback and Migration Backup a whole CDB Backup a PDB Recover CDB from redo log files, control files, undo datafiles loss Recover PDB from PDB datafiles loss Flashback at CDB level Online Datafile Move and Automatic Data Optimization Data classification in 12c : tablespace, group, object, row levels Configure heat map Automatic movement and compression Compression levels and types Policy declaration: simple declarative SQL extension Customized automated action execution with user-defined function Execution in scheduled maintenance windows and by MMON Customized schedule with DBMS_ILM package In-Database Archiving Challenges of old data in tables and 11g solutions In-database archiving new solutions Use ROW ARCHIVAL clause to enable row lifecycle state for applications Set ROW ARCHIVAL VISIBILITY for session level visibility control Use predicate on ORA_ARCHIVE_STATE column Temporal Validity versus Temporal History (Transaction Time of FDA) New clause of CREATE / ALTER TABLE to set a Temporal Validity: PERIOD FOR New SQL temporal data type Auditing Enhancements Review of 11g R2 audit trail implementation Overview of the Unified Audit Trail Enabling the Unified Audit Trail Creating a separate tablespace for the unified audit trail Granting the AUDIT_ADMIN role to a user for audit trail configuration and management Configuring the Unified Audit Trail to set a tolerance level for loss of audit records Creating audit policies

Who should attend

Oracle DBAs

Pre-requisites

Oracle DBA

What you need to bring

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Key Takeaways

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