The document outlines 11 key tasks of a database administrator: 1) evaluate hardware, 2) install software, 3) plan the database design, 4) create and open the database, 5) back up the database, 6) enroll users, 7) implement the database design, 8) back up the fully functional database, 9) tune performance, 10) download and install patches, and 11) roll out the database to additional hosts. Each task is then described in more detail with relevant subtasks and considerations.
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Tasks of database administrator
1. Presentation On:
Tasks Of Database Administrator
Presented To:
Sir Israr Hussain
Presented By:
Attia Qamar
2. Database Administrator TasksDatabase Administrator Tasks
These are the following tasks of Database
Administrator:
Task 1:Evaluate the Database Server Hardware
Task 2:Install the Oracle Database Software
Task 3:Plan the Database
Task 4:Create and Open the Database
Task 5:Back Up the Database
Task 6:Enroll System Users
Task 7:Implement the Database Design
Task 8:Back Up the Fully Functional Database
Task 9:Tune Database Performance
Task 10:Download and Install Patches
Task 11:Roll Out to Additional Hosts
3. Task 1: Evaluate the Database
Server Hardware
This evaluation should reveal the following
information:
Best use the available computer resources
How many disk drives are available to the Oracle
products
How many, if any, dedicated tape drives are
available to Oracle products
How much memory is available to the instances of
Oracle Database
4. Task 2: Install the Oracle
Database Software
As the database administrator:
Install the Oracle Database server software
Any front-end tools
Database applications
Install the Oracle Net components
5. Task 3: Plan the Database
As the database administrator, you must plan:
The logical storage structure of the database
The overall database design
A backup strategy for the database
7. Task 5: Back Up the Database
After you create the database structure:
Carry out the backup strategy
Create any additional redo log files,
Take full database backup (online or offline),
Schedule future database backups at regular
intervals
9. Task 7: Implement the
Database Design
Implement the planned logical structure
database by creating:
All necessary tablespaces
When you have finished creating tablespaces,
you can create the database objects.
10. Task 8: Back Up the Fully
Functional Database
Regularly scheduled backups
11. Task 9: Tune Database
Performance
Optimizing the performance of the database
Control the allocation of resources among
various user groups.
12. Task 10: Download and Install
Patches
After installation DB,
download and install patches
A patch is a piece of software designed to
update a computer program
single interim patches
patch sets (or patch releases)
13. Task 11: Roll Out to Additional
Hosts
Clone your tested Oracle Database:
Cloning an Oracle home
Manually clone an Oracle home
You have multiple production database systems.
You want to create development and test systems that are
identical to your production system.