Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i and Oracle8, Second Edition
by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Jonathan Stern
Database Management Features
Oracle includes many features that make the database easier to manage. We’ve divided the discussion in this section into four categories: Oracle Enterprise Manager, add-on packs, backup and recovery, and database availability.
Oracle Enterprise Manager
As part of every Database Server, Oracle provides the Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM), a database management tool framework with a graphical interface used to manage database users, instances, and features (such as replication) that can provide additional information about the Oracle environment. EM can also manage Oracle9iAS and Oracle iFS, Internet Directory, and Express.
Prior to the Oracle8i database, the EM software had to be installed on Windows 95/98 or NT-based systems and each repository could be accessed by only a single database manager at a time. Now you can use EM from a browser or load it onto Windows 95/98/2000 or NT-based systems. Multiple database administrators can access the EM repository at the same time. In the EM release for Oracle9i, the super administrator can define services that should be displayed on other administrators’ consoles, and management regions can be set up.
Add-on Packs
Several optional add-on packs are available for Oracle, as described in the following sections and in more detail in Chapter 5. In addition to these database-management packs, management packs are available for Oracle Applications and for SAP R/3.
Standard Management Pack
The Standard Management Pack ...
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