ORA10g005 - Oracle Database 10g: New & Advanced Features for Developers

Course ORA10g005

Table of Contents

Introduction
Audience
At Course Completion
Prerequisites
Certified Professional Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline

Introduction

The purpose of this course is to present some of the most advanced features available to database developers. Many of these features are either newly available with the Oracle10g release or have been substantially improved with that release.

Important Curriculum Note

One of the most substantial changes of interest to developers within the Oracle10g release is the matter of SQL tuning. The fundamental means by which this task is approached and accomplished has almost completely changed with the Oracle10g release. This is addressed separately in the one-week course ora10g003, Oracle10g Database: SQL Tuning. That course may be taken either before or after this course, but it should be considered as a mandatory complement to this course.

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Audience

The target audience for this course is senior application developers. Using these features one can rely upon less-frequently used database options to extend the capabilities and flexibility of business applications.

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At Course Completion

Among the specific subjects presented in this course are:

• A review of the grid-computing and manageability architecture available from the Oracle 10g release of the database and the application server.
• Database flashback technology, including flashback queries, flashback table, flashback versions query and flashback transaction query capabilities.
• Creating and using directory objects within the database.
• The Data Pump Export and Import utilities.
• A comprehensive look at all index types available when building an application schema, including B-tree internals, function-based, compressed, reverse key, linguistic, bitmap and bitmap join indexes.
• A comprehensive look at all table types available when building an application schema, including heap-organized tables, index clusters, hash clusters, index-organized tables, external tables, temporary tables and compressed tables.
• Advanced SQL hierarchal data processing capabilities available from the CONNECT BY PRIOR and related language structures.
• Enhanced SQL and transactional capabilities, including asynchronous commits, DML error trapping and use of regular expressions.
• Enhanced PL/SQL programming capabilities and compiler directives.
• A brief glimpse into the Enterprise Manager database interface which may be of occasional use to senior developers.

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Completed ora10g008, Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL I
• Completed ora10g009, Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL II
• Completed ora10g101, Oracle Database 10g: Program With PL/SQL

Also, as indicated above, the course ora10g003, Oracle10g Database: SQL Tuning should ideally be taken prior to this course, but it is an acceptable alternative to complete that course after finishing this one.

Finally, while not mandatory, the following courses are suggested and very helpful prerequisites:

• ora10g102, Oracle Database 10g: PL/SQL Application Tuning

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Certified Professional Exams

No exam currently exists for this course.

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Student Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

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Course Outline

ORACLE FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGY

• ABOUT FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGY
• FLASHBACK QUERY
• FLASHBACK TABLE
• FLASHBACK DROP
• FLASHBACK VERSIONS QUERY
• FLASHBACK TRANSACTION QUERY
• Querying FLASHBACK_TRANSACTION_QUERY
• GUARANTEE UNDO RETENTION

MANAGING DATA: EXPORTING & IMPORTING DATA

• CREATE DIRECTORY OBJECTS
• ABOUT THE DATA PUMP ARCHITECTURE
• DATA PUMP EXPORT
• DATA PUMP IMPORT
• DATA PUMP DATA DICTIONARY VIEWS
• USING THE EM INTERFACE

INDEXES WITHIN THE APPLICATION SCHEMA

• B-TREE INDEXES
• FUNCTION-BASED INDEXES
• COMPRESSED INDEXES
• REVERSE-KEY INDEXES
• BITMAP INDEXES
• BITMAP JOIN INDEXES
• LINGUISTIC INDEXES
• ACCESSING INDEX OBJECTS USING THE EM INTERFACE

ADVANCED TABLES: CLUSTERS & IOTS

• ABOUT INDEX CLUSTERS
• ABOUT HASH CLUSTERS
• ABOUT INDEX-ORGANIZED TABLES

ADVANCED TABLES: EXTERNAL TABLES

• ABOUT EXTERNAL TABLES
• ORACLE_LOADER ACCESS PARAMETERS
• RECORDS Parameter
• BADFILE Parameter
• LOGFILE Parameter
• DISCARDFILE Parameter
• LOAD WHEN Parameter
• SKIP Parameter
• The LOCATION Clause
• REJECT LIMIT Clause
• FIELDS TERMINATED BY Parameter
• MISSING FIELD VALUES Parameter
• ORACLE_DATAPUMP ACCESS DRIVER
• VIEWING & ALTERING PROPERTIES OF EXTERNAL TABLES
• USER_EXTERNAL_TABLES
• USER_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS
• Using ALTER TABLE

ADVANCED TABLES: TEMPORARY & COMPRESSED TABLES

PROCESSING HIERARCHIES

• WHY WE NEED HIERARCHIES
• PROCESSING 1:N HIERARCHIES
• PROCESSING M:N HIERARCHIES
• BOM Data Model
• ADVANCED HIERARCHY PROCESSING
• CONNECT_BY_ROOT()
• CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF

SQL NEW & ADVANCED FEATURES

• ASYNCHRONOUS COMMIT OPTIONS
• HANDLING DML ERRORS
• REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
• COLUMN ENCRYPTION
• MISCELLANEOUS ENHANCEMENTS

PL/SQL NEW & ADVANCED FEATURES

• HANDLING STRING LITERALS
• DATABASE TRIGGER ENHANCEMENTS
• COMPRESSION WITH UTL_COMPRESS()
• LZ_COMPRESS()
• LZ_UNCOMPRESS()
• COLLECTION ENHANCEMENTS
• MISCELLANEOUS ENHANCEMENTS

INFLUENCING ORACLE10G PL/SQL COMPILATION

• PLSQL_WARNINGS
• PLSQL_OPTIMIZE_LEVEL
• PL/SQL NATIVE EXECUTION

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