This book, written by veteran Iggy Fernandez Oracle database administrator, usually on the conference circuit NoCOUG Oracle and editor of the Journal, is an introduction to key topics set of Oracle database administration including planning, installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, and backups, to name just a few. For example, the chapter on monitoring database describes how to monitor the availability of databases, database changes, database security, database backups, database growth, the workload of the database, database performance and database capacity. The chapters of this book is logically divided into four parts that closely track the way you experience database administration career will flourish. Section 1 provides the necessary background in relational database theory and concepts of Oracle Database, Part 2 teaches you how to implement an Oracle database correctly, Section 3 exposes you to the daily routines of a database administrator, and Section 4 introduces you to the fine art of performance tuning. Each chapter also contains a list of reference works that contain more information on the topic of this chapter. In this book, you will find information that you will not find in other books on Oracle Database. If you take lessons in a chapter devoted to the heart, you can quickly become a database administrator Oracle is much better than you ever thought possible. What are you? Will learn theory of relational database management system of internal Oracle Licensing, architecture, and size of software installation and database creation Using indexes to improve the performance of user management and data loading How to monitor all aspects of your database and fix the problem Solution Database backup and recovery of database maintenance Database Database SQL tuning tuning Who is this book? If you are an IT professional who has been thrust into the role of Oracle database administration without benefit of formal training, or you just want to understand how Oracle works, this book is for you.