October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 42m
English
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The DBA Toolkit and Security
The OEM contains a set of database administration tools you can use to perform the normal, day-to-day tasks required of a DBA. As we said at the beginning of this chapter, the OEM is a GUI tool which will help you perform database administration tasks. Although it communicates with the databases using SQL commands (everything communicates with the database through SQL commands), the OEM is not a replacement for SQL*Plus — SQL never goes away.
If you are a new DBA, you will find tools within the OEM toolkit to help you perform your job more efficiently and effectively. If you are a seasoned DBA, you will still find many tools within the product set to help you be a better DBA. We recommend that, if you are a new DBA, you take advantage of the “Show SQL” option available from most of the tool screens to help you learn the SQL commands used to execute the various tasks you will perform with the OEM.
Warning
Do not rely solely on the OEM to perform your tasks. If, for whatever reasons, the OEM console becomes unavailable to you, you will have to be able to issue SQL commands explicitly and you’ll need a thorough knowledge of those commands so you can administer your databases.
The following sections will examine each utility provided within the DBA toolkit and focus on what options, if any, are provided to aid you in implementing and maintaining database security.
The Oracle Backup Manager
The Backup Manager enables you to perform the backups necessary to ...
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