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• Oracle Backup and Recovery
   

• Oracle Performance Tuning
   

• Oracle Security
   

• Common DBA Procedures
   

• Oracle9 Release 2 New Features/ Upgrade Issues
   

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• Oracle8i New Features/ Upgrade Issues
   

• Oracle8.0 New Features/ Upgrade Issues
   

• DBA Tasks and Responsibilities
   

• Oracle Enterprise Manager
   

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• Oracle Server Parameters
   

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In Oracle 10G one can UNDROP a table without having to restore the entire database. If a table a dropped, Oracle moves it to a Recycle Bin.

Starting with Oracle release 9.0.1, Oracle doesn't ship with a svrmgrl utility. One should migrate all svrmrgl scripts to SQL*Plus.

Svrmgrl STARTUP keywords EXCLUSIVE, SHARED and PARALLEL have no effect from Oracle8. Set INIT.ORA parameter PARALLEL_SERVER=FALSE to start in EXCLUSIVE mode.

From Oracle8 you can use the file number instead of the name in commands. Eg. ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE 40 OFFLINE;

From Oracle8 the Advanced Replication Option is included with Oracle8 Enterprise Edition for free.