CHAPTER 5
Managing Files and Directories
A complex part of the job of every Oracle DBA job involves dealing with files and directories. Therefore, DBAs must be experts in file manipulation. Your job requires skills such as implementing database security, performing backups and recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting performance issues. These critical tasks are all dependent on a command-line knowledge of managing files. Expert DBAs know how to administer files and navigate within the filesystem.
A file, which is the basic building block of a Linux/Solaris system, is a container for information stored on disk. You access a file by its file name ...
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