Schedule

Week 11—Wait Interface

Week 1—Flashback Versions Query
Week 2—Rollback Monitoring
Week 3—Tablespace Management
Week 4—Oracle Data Pump
Week 5—Flashback Table
Week 6—Automatic Workload Repository
Week 7—SQL*Plus Rel 10.1
Week 8—Automatic Storage Management
Week 9—RMAN
Week 10—Auditing
Week 12—Materialized Views
Week 13—Enterprise Manager 10g
Week 14—Virtual Private Database
Week 15—Automatic Segment Management
Week 16—Transportable Tablespaces
Week 17—Automatic Shared Memory
Management
Week 18—ADDM and SQL Tuning
Advisor
Week 19—Scheduler
Week 20—Best of the Rest

 Flashback Enhancements -Flashback Version Query, Flashback Transaction Query,

LOB Handling with Flashback, Setting up for Flashback, Flashback Table, Flashback
Drop Table and Recycle Bin management.
 Backup and Recovery Enhancements - Flash Recovery Area, Flashback Database
(setup, flashback logs and use), Restore Points, Simplified Recovery through
RESETLOGS, Compressed Backups, Change Tracking, Incrementally Updated Image
Copies, SWITCH DATABASE, New V$ Views, Encrypted Backups, DROP
DATABASE, CATALOG, Oracle Secure Backup and more.
 Automatic Storage Management - An introduction to Oracle's new integrated file
system and volume manager. Examples illustrate the basic use of ASM, including
creating disk groups, fail groups, and using ASMCMD.
 Job Scheduler - Use the new DBMS_SCHEDULER package to schedule jobs,
including OS scripts. Examples illustrate creating and scheduling jobs in both a Linux
and a Windows environment.
 SQL Enhancements - Regular expressions, DML error logging, case-insensitive sort
and search, MERGE enhancements, MODEL queries, XQUERY and much more.
 PL/SQL Enhancements -The new optimizing compiler, compiler warning messages,
debugging improvements, native compilation enhancements, UTL_MAIL and more.
 Performance and Tuning Features - Automatic SGA Management, Automatic
Workload Repository (AWR), Advisors (ADDM, SQL Tuning Advisor, etc), Active
Session History data, new performance statistics (e.g. metrics and database time),
Thresholds and Server-Generated Alerts, CBO Enhancements and much more.
 Security and Auditing Enhancements - Changes to the CONNECT Role, FGAC
Review, FGAC / VPD Enhancements, FGA Review, Fine Grained Auditing
Enhancements, Encryption Enhancements, DBMS_CRYPTO Package (R1) and
Transparent Data Encryption (R2).
 Tablespace, Table and Segment Management - SYSAUX tablespace, BIGFILE and
SMALLFILE tablespaces, database-level default tablespace, database-level default temp
tablespace, temp tablespace groups, multi-platform transportable tablespace, renaming
tablespaces, predicting object growth, online table redefinition enhancements and online
segment shrink.
 Utilities (Data Pump) - An example-based introduction to Data Pump, the next
generation export / import utility. Also covered: External Table and Logminer
enhancements.
 SQL*Plus Enhancements - New predefined variables, SPOOL command
enhancements, AUTOTRACE enhancements and more.
 Miscellaneous Enhancements - Guaranteed UNDO retention, ROLLBACK
monitoring, Easy Connect (EZCONNECT) connections, database high watermark
recording, database feature usage tracking and new and deprecated initialization
parameters.