Pro Oracle Database 23c Administration

Master Oracle Database administration in both on-premises and cloud environments. This new edition covers the tasks you'll need to perform to keep your databases stable, tuned, and running. The book also includes administrative tasks specific to cloud environments, including the Oracle Autonomous Database running in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. New in this edition is help for DBAs who are becoming involved in data management, and a look at the idea of a converged database and what that means in handling various data types and workloads. The book covers some of the machine learning features now in Oracle and shows how the same SQL that you know for database administration also helps you with data management tasks. The information in this book helps you to apply the right solution at the right time, mitigating risk and making robust choices that protect your data and avoid midnight phone calls.

Data management is increasingly a DBA function, and DBAs are often called upon for help in getting data loaded into analytics environments such as a data lakehouse or a data mesh. This book addresses this fast-growing new role for database administrators and helps you build on your existing knowledge to make the transition into a new skill set that is in high demand. You'll learn how to look at data optimization from the standpoint of data analysis and machine learning so that you can be seen as a key player in preparing your organization's data for those type of activities. You'll know how to pull back information from a combination of relational tables and JSON structures. You'll become familiar with the tools that Oracle Database provides to make analytics easier and more straightforward. And you'll learn simpler ways to manage time-based tables that eliminate the need for painfully creating triggers to track the history of row changes over time.

This book builds your skills as an Oracle Database administrator with the aim of helping you to be seen as a key player in data management as your organization pivots toward cloud computing and a greater use of machine learning and analytics technologies.

Oracle database administrators (DBAs) who want to be current with the new features in Oracle Database 23c. For any DBA who is tasked with managing Oracle databases in cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud configurations. Also helpful for data architects who are designing analytic solutions in data lakehouse and data mesh environments. 

Michelle Malcher is a senior manager for database product management at Oracle. Her deep technical expertise, from database to security, as well as her senior level contributions as a speaker, author, Oracle ACE director, and customer advisory board participant have aided many corporations in areas such as architecture and risk assessment, purchasing and installation, and ongoing systems oversight. She was a founding board member for FUEL, the Palo Alto Networks User community, as well as a past president and long time volunteer for the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG). She has built out teams for database security and data services, and enjoys sharing knowledge about data intelligence and providing secure and standardized database environments.

Darl Kuhn is an Oracle DBA consultant at RMCI. He handles all facets of database administration from design and development to production support. He also teaches advanced database courses at University of Denver. He does volunteer DBA work for the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group. He has a graduate degree from Colorado State University and lives near Spanish Peaks, Colorado, with his wife, Heidi, and daughters, Brandi and Lisa.