Oracle Database 12c RAC Administration: Installing, Configuring, and Patching
Oracle Database 12c RAC Administration: Installing, Configuring, and Patching Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
Installing, upgrading, and patching are essential tasks for any DBA, ensuring outages due to software problems are kept to a minimum. This course provide the skills to implement and maintain Oracle RAC software in a production environment and also covers creating a RAC database and understanding all the options available when creating a RAC database. The course also covers converting a single-instance database to RAC and the administration of Oracle RAC One Node. This course is one of a series in the SkillSoft learning path that cover a portion of the objectives for exam 1Z0-068 Oracle Database 12c: RAC and Grid Infrastructure.
Target Audience
Oracle Database Administrators, Systems Administrators, Technical Consultants.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.6
Lesson Objectives Oracle Database 12c RAC Administration: Installing, Configuring, and Patching
start the course
perform an Oracle Database software installation
start the database configuration assistant and begin the process of creating a new database
use the database configuration assistant to perform steps 4 through 8 of creating a new database
complete the creation of a new database and describe the different memory management options
describe the RAC specific background processes
list the considerations for converting single-instance databases to Oracle RAC
list the steps for converting single-instance databases to Oracle RAC using Database Configuration Assistant and rconfig
describe the different types of patches available for Oracle RAC
describe how to find the correct patches for your software and how to download them from Oracle Support
describe how to apply a patch with zero downtime using the rolling patch method
list the steps to perform an out-of-place upgrade of an Oracle RAC database
describe what OPatch is and identify the use cases for OPatch
use OPatch to query and apply patches
patch the Grid home and all Oracle RAC database homes in one step
view OPatch log and trace files and use a SQL interface to view the database patches
define the concept of Oracle RAC One Node and describe some of the benefits of using Oracle RAC One Node
describe how to create a new RAC One Node database and how to verify an existing RAC One Node database
describe the RAC One Node online relocation process and list some of the considerations involved in an online relocation
perform an online relocation and describe how rolling patches can be applied using online relocation
describe how to convert a RAC One Node Database to RAC
describe how to convert a single-instance to RAC One Node and how to convert a RAC database to RAC One Node
use DBCA to convert a single-instance database to a RAC database
Course Number: od_raad_a02_it_enus
Expertise Level
Intermediate
