Database Administration using Oracle Training
Oracle databases sit behind core banking, ERP and government systems, where downtime or data loss carries a heavy price. The fortnight begins with Oracle architecture, covering the instance, memory structures, background processes and the multitenant container and pluggable database model, followed by a full installation. You then create and configure databases with DBCA, SQL Developer and Enterprise Manager, and manage initialisation parameters, startup and shutdown modes. Storage sessions cover tablespaces, data files, segments, undo, redo logs and practical space management.
Schema administration includes tables, indexes, views, sequences, constraints and techniques for protecting data integrity. Security modules create users, roles, profiles and privileges, apply password policies and introduce auditing. The networking day configures the listener, tnsnames and Oracle Net services so clients connect reliably. Every topic is practised on lab databases, building confidence with real commands. Junior DBAs, developers taking on database duties, system administrators and support engineers will find it a solid grounding. You leave able to install, configure, secure and maintain Oracle databases in a production setting.
About this course
Database Administration using Oracle Training addresses the real challenges professionals face in this domain through practical techniques and frameworks.
Participants leave with tools, templates, and real-world strategies they can apply immediately in their work.
The Database Administration using Oracle Training is designed for professionals who need practical, current command of database administration using oracle and the ability to translate it into measurable organizational results. As expectations around accountability, efficiency and demonstrable results continue to rise, organizations increasingly depend on staff who can apply structured approaches rather than improvise. This certified programme combines proven methodology with hands-on application, covering performance monitoring and SQL tuning, storage structures and space management and the analytical techniques that underpin sound professional judgement.
Throughout the programme, participants work through realistic scenarios drawn from technology organizations, digital transformation programmes, data-driven enterprises, and public sector IT environments, examining how database administration using oracle is applied in practice and where it most often breaks down. Delegates will develop practical skill in designing appropriate frameworks, selecting and applying the right tools for performance monitoring and SQL tuning, interpreting findings, and communicating conclusions clearly to colleagues, management and external stakeholders. Sessions move deliberately from principles to application, so that each technique introduced is practised against a realistic problem before the programme moves on — strengthening both individual effectiveness and the wider capability of the organizations delegates return to.
Training Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Develop robust database administration using oracle frameworks that support successful implementation and measurable outcomes.
- Analyze performance using recognized evaluation methods drawn from performance monitoring and SQL tuning.
- Design practical systems that strengthen accountability, transparency and evidence generation.
- Evaluate outcomes and assess longer-term impact across a range of operating contexts.
- Apply relevant tools, frameworks and analytical methodologies confidently and appropriately.
- Integrate storage structures and space management into existing organizational processes and reporting structures.
- Strengthen decision-making and operational effectiveness through evidence-based professional practice.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
By the end of the Database Administration using Oracle Training, participants will leave with:
- A comprehensive working understanding of database administration using oracle principles and performance-measurement methodology.
- Enhanced ability to design practical systems and evaluate outcomes reliably.
- Improved competency in performance monitoring and SQL tuning, reporting structures and analytical interpretation.
- Practical techniques for translating findings into strategic insight and clear recommendations.
- Greater confidence in applying database administration using oracle and assessing measurable results.
- Stronger capability to support organizational learning and continuous performance improvement.
- Improved approaches to strengthening sustainability, accountability and operational effectiveness.
Training Methodology
This training course adopts a practical, participant-centered learning approach that builds database administration using oracle expertise, strengthens analytical capability and develops confident professional judgement. The methodology combines specialist facilitation, applied hands-on experience and globally recognized professional practice, so that delegates return able to apply what they have learned immediately rather than in theory only.
Methodology includes:
- Expert-led sessions facilitated by experienced database administration using oracle practitioners and subject-matter specialists.
- Practical application of the frameworks, tools and techniques used in performance monitoring and SQL tuning.
- Real-world case studies drawn from technology organizations, digital transformation programmes, data-driven enterprises, and public sector IT environments.
- Tool-based demonstrations of the systems, templates and reporting applications used in current practice.
- Interactive discussion and scenario-based learning focused on realistic challenges and decision points.
- Structured group exercises with facilitator feedback, reinforcing learning through practice rather than lecture alone.
Day 1: Oracle Database Architecture and Installation
- Instance, database and multitenant container architecture: CDBs and PDBs
- Memory structures: SGA components, PGA and automatic memory management
- Background processes: SMON, PMON, DBWn, LGWR, CKPT and ARCn
- Physical files: datafiles, control files, online redo logs and parameter files
- Pre-installation checks, kernel parameters and Oracle Universal Installer walkthrough
- Directory layout under Oracle Base and Oracle Home conventions
- Data, evidence and information requirements for oracle database architecture and installation
Day 2: Database Creation, Configuration and Administrative Tools
- Creating databases with DBCA and with manual CREATE DATABASE scripts
- Managing initialisation parameters: SPFILE versus PFILE, static and dynamic parameters
- Startup and shutdown modes: NOMOUNT, MOUNT, OPEN, IMMEDIATE and ABORT
- SQL*Plus, SQLcl and Oracle Enterprise Manager administrative interfaces
- Configuring the data dictionary and dynamic performance views for daily work
- Creating, opening, cloning and unplugging pluggable databases
- Measuring performance and assuring quality in database creation, configuration and administrative tools
Day 3: Storage Structures and Space Management
- Logical storage hierarchy: tablespaces, segments, extents and Oracle blocks
- Creating and resizing permanent, temporary and undo tablespaces
- Bigfile tablespaces, autoextend policies and datafile relocation
- Automatic Segment Space Management and segment shrink operations
- Undo retention, undo tablespace sizing and resolving snapshot-too-old errors
- Reclaiming space, monitoring growth and setting tablespace alert thresholds
- Roles, responsibilities and stakeholder coordination in storage structures and space management
Day 4: Managing Schema Objects and Data Integrity
- Creating and altering tables, column data types and virtual columns
- B-tree, bitmap, function-based and invisible indexes and when to use each
- Constraints: primary key, foreign key, check, unique and deferred validation
- Views, materialised views, sequences and synonyms in administrative practice
- Partitioning strategies: range, list, hash and composite partitions
- Gathering and managing optimiser statistics for schema objects
- Core principles and terminology underpinning managing schema objects and data integrity
Day 5: Users, Privileges and Database Security
- Creating users, profiles and password policies including complexity verification
- System and object privileges, roles and privilege analysis
- Auditing options: unified auditing, audit policies and audit trail management
- Transparent Data Encryption, wallets and encrypted tablespaces
- Virtual Private Database and Oracle Data Redaction for sensitive columns
- Securing listener and network access with least-privilege configuration
- Documentation, record-keeping and reporting requirements
Day 6: Oracle Networking, Listener and Client Connectivity
- Oracle Net architecture, listener.ora, tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora
- Configuring and troubleshooting the listener with lsnrctl and service registration
- Dedicated versus shared server connections and connection pooling considerations
- Easy Connect, local naming and directory naming methods
- Diagnosing common connectivity errors: ORA-12154, ORA-12505 and ORA-12514
- Encrypting traffic and restricting connections by host and protocol
- Practical tools, templates and techniques for oracle networking, listener and client connectivity
Day 7: Backup, Recovery and Recovery Manager (RMAN)
- Backup strategy design: ARCHIVELOG mode, retention policies and the RTO/RPO trade-off
- RMAN architecture, channels, catalogue and control file repository
- Full, incremental, cumulative and image copy backups with compression
- Complete and point-in-time recovery, datafile and tablespace restores
- Block media recovery, Data Recovery Advisor and validating backups
- Flashback Database, Flashback Table and the Fast Recovery Area
- Practical exercise and facilitated review
Day 8: Performance Monitoring and SQL Tuning
- Automatic Workload Repository snapshots, baselines and AWR reports
- ADDM findings, Active Session History and top wait event analysis
- Reading execution plans with EXPLAIN PLAN, DBMS_XPLAN and SQL Trace
- Optimiser behaviour: cardinality estimates, histograms and adaptive plans
- SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Access Advisor and SQL plan baselines
- Tuning memory, I/O and latch contention; resolving locks and deadlocks
- Regulatory, ethical and compliance dimensions of performance monitoring and SQL tuning
Day 9: High Availability, Data Movement and Automation
- Oracle Data Guard: physical standby setup, protection modes and switchover
- Automatic Storage Management disk groups, redundancy and rebalancing
- Real Application Clusters concepts, services and node failover behaviour
- Data Pump export and import, transportable tablespaces and external tables
- Scheduling maintenance with DBMS_SCHEDULER jobs, programs and windows
- Patching approaches: Release Updates, OPatch and downtime planning
- Standards, frameworks and good practice governing high availability, data movement and automation
Day 10: Upgrades, Troubleshooting and Operational Practice
- Upgrade paths, pre-upgrade checks and post-upgrade validation steps
- Diagnosing failures using the alert log, trace files and the Automatic Diagnostic Repository
- Root cause analysis of corruption, instance crashes and runaway sessions
- Resource Manager plans, consumer groups and workload prioritisation
- Capacity planning, growth forecasting and documenting the database estate
- Building DBA runbooks, service level targets and handover checklists
- Reviewing outcomes and capturing lessons learned
This ten-day Oracle database administration programme is aimed at technical staff who carry responsibility for the availability, security and performance of Oracle databases in production environments.
- Oracle Database Administrators and junior DBAs moving into production support
- Systems and infrastructure administrators supporting Oracle instances on Linux or Windows
- Database developers and PL/SQL programmers who tune SQL and manage schema objects
- Data centre and operations engineers responsible for backup, recovery and patching schedules
- Application support analysts diagnosing database-related performance incidents
- Data architects and data warehouse specialists sizing storage, tablespaces and partitions
- IT managers accountable for database service levels, licensing and capacity planning
Delegates who complete all ten days receive a Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, confirming their ability to install, configure, secure, back up, recover and tune Oracle databases in line with established database administration practices.
The award recognizes full attendance and successful completion of the programme assessment activities. It is widely accepted for continuing professional development purposes, and its authenticity can be confirmed with Vision Reach Global Consultancy at any time.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Database Administration using Oracle Training
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
By the end of the Database Administration using Oracle Training programme, you'll be able to understand fundamental concepts and frameworks, apply best practices and methodologies, solve real-world challenges, and build capability in the organization. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
This ten-day Oracle database administration programme is aimed at technical staff who carry responsibility for the availability, security and performance of Oracle databases in production environments. Typical delegates include Oracle Database Administrators and junior DBAs moving into production support, Systems and infrastructure administrators supporting Oracle instances on Linux or Windows, Database developers and PL/SQL programmers who tune SQL and manage schema objects, Data centre and operations engineers responsible for backup, recovery and patching schedules, Application support analysts diagnosing database-related performance incidents, Data architects and data warehouse specialists sizing storage, tablespaces and partitions, and IT managers accountable for database service levels, licensing and capacity planning.
Database Administration using Oracle Training typically runs as 10 Days. It's available as in-person classroom training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Database Administration using Oracle Training is scheduled in-classroom in Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Database Administration using Oracle Training starts November 9, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Database Administration using Oracle Training from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Database Administration using Oracle Training is pitched at intermediate to advanced professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Database Administration using Oracle Training vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Database Administration using Oracle Training can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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