Featured free training: Oracle 11g 2-Day DBA Course

Many players in the tech industry publish topical whitepapers that include analysis and commentary on a wide range of issues that are relevant to technologists and IT overlords alike. Last month we shared some papers about privileged access auditing, wireless security, and RFID technology. This week, we have something a bit different. Rather than a conventional whitepaper, we are offering Oracle 11g training material.

The Oracle 11g 2-Day DBA Course is a step-by-step tutorial with lots of screenshots and extremely clear and explicit instructions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with Oracle's standard 2-Day DBA guide, which is a good starting point for learning how to install and manage Oracle database systems. Unfortunately Oracle's guide leaves a lot of things unexplained and contains some ambiguities that might prove frustrating for beginners. The Course, which we are offering to you this week, provides context clues and some useful clarifications that make the guide much easier to follow.

The Course covers a wide range of topics, including initial installation and configuration, user and security administration, manipulating schema, performance tuning, and backup processes.

If you are a developer and you want to prototype an application for nonproduction use on top of an Oracle 11g database, you can also grab a bunch of other Oracle downloads and white papers here.

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