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The Complete Guide to the Oracle DBA Role /

Become an Oracle DBA

Become an Oracle Database Administrator

(DBA)
To become a DBA, take hands-on training courses and get Oracle Certi ed.

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In-Page Topics Chapter 5: Become an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA)

How Can I nd Out about Oracle Database Products and Related
Topics?

Get Answers to Questions from the Oracle Masters

Where Can I Find Free Oracle Training?

Why Take Oracle Database Training from Oracle University?

Oracle Database Training from Oracle University Shows You

How to:

Should I consider an Oracle Learning Subscription?

Content Covered in Oracle Database New Features Learning

Subscription

To become a DBA, start by taking the following courses:

 Introduction to SQL
 Oracle Database: Administration Workshop

How Can I nd Out about Oracle Database

Products and Related Topics?
Oracle.com lists Oracle Database products by category.

It also lists database features and options, management and big data solutions, engineered systems tools and languages, and
more. This is an impressive collection of useful information. Be sure to check it out!

Oracle Technology Network (OTN), another useful information source, includes links to collateral, documentation, sample
code, technical whitepapers, demos and viewlets, online seminars, and discussion forums directly relating to Oracle products.

Get Answers to Questions from the Oracle

Masters
If you'd like to see how the Oracle Masters answer technical questions, check out the Ask TOM website. This online repository
contains over 18,800 questions and answers from the Ask TOM team. This content covers many topics related to building
applications on top of an Oracle Database. And Ask TOM is one of the leading sites where you can learn about Oracle
Database from true experts, so if you have a question about Oracle Database that you can't solve yourself, now you know
where to ask it!

Another helpful information source is the Oracle Developer website. It covers a wide range of topics, such as Java, containers,
microservices, APIs, and Open Source. You can read developer success stories, tap into developer communities and user
groups, and more.

Also visit the ThatJe Smith website, which is full of tips that help you optimize your Oracle Database experience. The
information on Oracle SQL Developer is particularly good. Feedspot has a page that lists their take on the “Top 100 Oracle
Blogs and Websites for Oracle DBAs to Follow in 2018.

Visit the Oracle Database blog to get the latest from Oracle’s database team.,

Where Can I Find Free Oracle Training?

Go to the Oracle University Training On Demand page, where you can preview courses for free. For example, you can watch
a couple of two-minute snippets from the Oracle Database 12cR2: Administration Workshop course.

Oracle.com has videos that you can watch on demand. The Database section includes videos, webinars, and demos that you
can watch for free. The Database section includes videos, webinars and demos that you can watch for free. If you scroll down
that page, you will see a Learning Library that includes articles and videos. Scroll down further and nd Database Blogs.

The Oracle Database Resources page includes articles, blogs, podcasts, webcasts, videos, white papers and more – all for free.

 Oracle Technology Network's Database section o ers blogs, interactive quick-reference guides, developer spotlights,
discussion forums, and more.
 Oracle's Ask TOM page lists trending questions with their answers, and includes links to user groups, blogs and free
training.
 The Oracle Learning Library is a place where you can search for free Oracle online training on a wide variety of topics,
including Oracle Database.

Why Take Oracle Database Training from

Oracle University?
Protecting your Oracle investment makes sense, and a great way to make that happen is to take authorized Oracle training.
Oracle curriculum teams work with the product teams to make sure they are capturing the information that you need to learn
about directly from the source.

It doesn't get any be er than that.

Oracle knows that when you take this training, you bene t in multiple ways – you get a rst-hand experience of all the
capabilities of the product, and you become a more satis ed customer because you experience fewer issues. You also gain
skills that will bene t your career directly when you take training from the experts.

Plus, we stand behind our courses with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

When employees learn Oracle from Oracle, organizations experience some valuable bene ts, such as:

 Improved business results

 Higher revenue per employee
 Higher pro t margins
 Higher shareholder return

Oracle Database Training from Oracle

University Shows You How to:
Reduce costs Reduce risks
 Manage many databases as one with Multitenant  Achieve high availability with Real Applications Clusters
(RAC)
 Reduce storage needs with Advanced Compression by
as much as 60%  Automate disaster recovery with Active Data Guard
 Reduce administration and runtime costs with  Secure data with encryption (TDE) and data redaction
Autonomous Database Cloud
 Protect against business-crippling intrusions with wide-
 Increase utilization of IT assets by 6x ranging security features
 Reduce maintenance time by 50%

Improve performance Accelerate innovation

 See massive performance gains for real-time analytics  Rapidly provision database environments with
with In-Memory Column Store Multitenant and Enterprise Manager
 Achieve performance and high availability of very large  Accelerate analytic queries by orders of magnitude
web applications with native database sharding with Oracle Database In-Memory
 Enjoy the highest levels of availability with Oracle’s  Improve agility with Autonomous Database Cloud
Maximum Availability Architecture
 Improve DBA and developer productivity
 See trained employees become productive 6x faster
(according to CEdMA, the Customer Education
Management Association)

Ensure an easy path to the cloud

 Run your applications without changes in Oracle Cloud
 Easily deploy and manage hybrid database
environments
 Drive new initiatives with Autonomous Database Cloud

Should I consider an Oracle Learning

Subscription?
Oracle Database curriculum includes courses that help you explore the most advanced features and methods for achieving
maximum performance, availability, and reliability using the core database technologies and features.

You’ll nd all this and more by signing up for the Oracle Database New Features Learning Subscription. This training will
help you understand which new features are available, how they can be used and why you would want to use them, with
insight from expert Oracle instructors.

You get one year of continuous database training, for not much more than the price of a single training course. This
subscription is the most cost-e ective way to get high-quality Oracle Database training on an ongoing basis.

Content Covered in Oracle Database New

Features Learning Subscription
Taking a one-time online or classroom course will teach you how to leverage new database features; however, you may have
to pay for yet another course to get trained on the next set of enhancements. The Oracle Database New Features Learning
Subscription avoids that additional expense and covers the following topics:

 Leveraging Enhancements in Multitenant

 Managing Security
 Using RMAN
 General Database Administration Functionality
 Improving Performance
 Big Data, Data Warehousing and Sharding Implementations

As you start or continue your journey toward becoming a DBA, the best thing you can do for yourself- and for your current
or future employer – is to invest in continuously building your database skills.

Read Chapter 6: Beginning Oracle DBA Skills

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