Oracle Database Administration

Oracle Admin II

Oracle Admin II picks up where the fundamentals leave off and takes you into the work that separates a junior from a trusted DBA. You'll tune slow queries, run RMAN backup-and-recovery drills, read performance reports, and keep a busy database responsive under load. It's hands-on throughout, built around the situations you'll actually face on the job.

Duration: 1 mth
Format: Live 1-on-1
Level: Professional
Certificate: Osian

Overview

What this course is about

Production-minded Oracle learners can use Oracle Admin II to move beyond routine instance checks and basic user creation. These live 1-on-1 online classes examine the decisions an administrator makes when databases become busy, storage becomes constrained or recovery must be planned carefully. Lessons are suitable for people who have completed foundational Oracle study or already support SQL environments. Each topic is connected to a scenario, diagnostic method and documented action plan.

The course explores RMAN strategy, recovery catalog ideas, point-in-time recovery, standby concepts and backup validation. You also investigate optimizer statistics, execution plans, indexing choices, wait events and practical performance triage. Exercises introduce Data Guard terminology, patching considerations, alert-log analysis and controlled changes to initialization parameters. Rather than treating commands as magic recipes, the teacher explains risk, evidence and rollback thinking for each administrative decision.

Oracle Admin II course online learning is particularly useful when you want a stronger bridge between classroom administration and enterprise support work. You create incident notes, recovery checklists and tuning observations that can become portfolio evidence for interviews. The course certificate, resume assistance, mock interview practice and referral-oriented placement support add career preparation, while the technical work prepares you for further Oracle advanced administration learning or certification study.

By the end

What you’ll be able to do

Design a backup and recovery approach using RMAN concepts and recovery objectives.
Diagnose common performance symptoms through plans, statistics, waits and resource evidence.
Evaluate tablespace, storage and parameter changes before applying them in a lab.
Describe Data Guard and standby database roles in an operational support context.
Document patching, incident response and rollback considerations for Oracle environments.
Prepare technical explanations suitable for advanced DBA interviews and certification study.

Syllabus

How the course flows

1
Architecture & InstallationModule 1
How an Oracle instance is structured — memory, processes, storage — and a clean install from scratch.
2
Users, Roles & SecurityModule 2
Creating schemas, granting privileges, and locking the database down the way real admins do.
3
Storage & TablespacesModule 3
Managing datafiles, tablespaces and undo so the database stays healthy as data grows.
4
Backup & RecoveryModule 4
RMAN backups, restore scenarios and the recovery drills every DBA is expected to know.
5
Performance & MonitoringModule 5
Reading AWR reports, spotting slow SQL and keeping the instance responsive under load.

Toolkit

Tools you’ll use

Oracle Database
SQL*Plus
Oracle Enterprise Manager
RMAN
SQL Developer

Audience

Who this course is for

Oracle Admin I learners ready for advanced database operations
Junior DBAs handling backup and performance tickets
Application support engineers investigating Oracle bottlenecks
Database professionals preparing for senior support responsibilities
Oracle certification candidates wanting structured practical revision

Where it leads

Roles this opens up

Oracle Database Administrator
Handles supervised recovery, tuning, monitoring and change tasks across Oracle environments.
Database Performance Support Analyst
Reviews execution evidence and resource symptoms to help teams resolve slow workloads.
Oracle Recovery Operations Associate
Maintains backup validation and recovery documentation for business databases.

Questions

Before you enrol

You should already understand SQL*Plus, users, storage, instance startup and basic backup terminology. A teacher can identify gaps, but this course intentionally spends more time on advanced administration decisions.

The practical work refers to execution plans, optimizer statistics, wait events, resource usage and alert-log clues. You learn to connect those signals before recommending a change instead of guessing from a single symptom.

Data Guard roles, standby concepts and operational considerations are discussed with guided scenarios. The depth of live configuration depends on the available lab environment and Oracle edition.

You may bring a sanitised description of an incident, without confidential data or credentials. The teacher can map it to safe lab exercises and explain which production decisions need senior approval.

No official vendor exam or credential is included. The lessons can prepare you for independent Oracle certification study by strengthening advanced concepts and practical reasoning.

Admin II assumes foundational administration and emphasises recovery design, performance diagnosis, standby concepts and production change discipline. Choose Admin I if you still need to learn Oracle architecture and everyday operations.