Next Steps: Continuing Your Education

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Where Do You Go from Here?

To stay competitive in the tech industry, never stop learning. Always be on the lookout for better ways of doing things and new technologies. Our industry does not reward people who let themselves stagnate
John Hall, Senior Vice President, Oracle University

Here are a few resources to help you with continuing your education.

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Continuing Education Resources

The resources to learn more about administering Oracle Database 11g include: Oracle University Oracle Technology Network Technical support: Oracle MetaLink

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Oracle University
http://education.oracle.com

Learn Oracle from Oracle! No one knows Oracle technology better than Oracle University. Worldwide education services 100% student satisfaction Learn with the format that best suits your needs:
Instructor-Led Inclass Training Live Web Class Self-Study CD-ROMs

Certification

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Continuing Your Education

Recommended follow-on classes:

Oracle Database 11g: Administration Workshop II Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals I & II Oracle Database 11g: PL/SQL Fundamentals

Grid technology specialty courses:

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control Oracle Database 11g: Real Application Clusters Oracle Database 11g: Implement Streams Oracle Database 11g: Data Guard Administration

Other specialty courses

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Database Specialty Areas

Modern Enterprise Grids Real Application Clusters Management packs TimesTen In-Memory Database Information Lifecycle Management Partitioning Advanced Compression Data Warehousing Oracle Information Appliances OLAP, Mining, Warehouse Builder Governance, Risk & Compliance Security Options Total Recall Change management Real Application Testing
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Oracle Real Application Clusters

Consolidating different workloads to a single grid Virtualizing the information platform Flexible physical infrastructure (including dedicated servers)

Databases

Storage

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Oracle Data Guard

Synchronous or asynchronous redo transport Primary database

Standby databases, for example: For reporting: Logical standby database with additional materialized views For QA and testing: Physical/ Snapshot standby with the changes queued For off-site queries: Physical standby

Observer: Initiating fast-start failover

Production Database
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Oracle Net

Database copies
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Streams Overview

Source database
Propagate

Target database

Capture Redo logs

Apply1 Apply2
Transparent Gateway

Non-Oracle database

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Security
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/index.html

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Oracle Technology Network

http://www.oracle.com/technology

Oracle Technology Network is a free resource with information about the core Oracle software products, including database and development tools. You can have access to: Technology centers Oracle Community including user groups Software downloads and code samples Oracle by Example and much more!

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Oracle by Example

What is an OBE?
A set of hands-on, step-by-step instructions

Where can you find them?

http://www.oracle.com//technology/obe

What is available?
Over 100 database OBEs grouped by focus area:

Installation Availability Manageability Security Application Development Business Intelligence Extended Data Management
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Technical Support: Oracle MetaLink

http://metalink.oracle.com

Access to Oracle MetaLink is included as part of your annual support maintenance fees. In addition to the most up-to-date technical information available, MetaLink gives you access to: Service requests (SRs) Certification matrices Technical forums monitored by Oracle experts Software patches Bug reports

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Thank You!

We hope your experience with Oracle University has been enjoyable. We welcome your feedback on how we can improve to better meet your needs: End-of-course evaluations Oracle University Office of Customer Satisfaction Oracle Education Services We hope to see you in class again soon.

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