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Overview of Oracle Database

Lee, JeongKyu (jelee@bridgeport.edu)



Part 1. Introduction to Database System
Introduction to Database
History of RDBMS
Entity-Relationship Modeling
Database Language
Introduction to Database
File-Based Approach
Each program defines and manages its own data
Limitation
Separation and isolation of data
Duplication of data
Data dependence
Incompatibility of files
Fixed queries/proliferation of application program
Database Approach
A shared collection of logically related data, designed
to meet the information needs of an organization
Database Management System(DBMS)
A software system that enables users to define, create and
maintain the database and provides controlled access to
database
DDL
DML : procedural, non-procedural
Control : security, integrity, concurrency control,
recovery control, user-accessible catalog

Components of the DBMS Environment
Hardware - Software - Data - Procedures - People
Advantages of DBMS
- Control of data redundancy - Economy of scale
- Data consistency - Balance of conflicting requirements
- More information from the same amount of data
- Sharing of data - Improved data accessibility and
responsiveness
- Improved data integrity - Increased productivity
- Improved security - Improved maintenance through data
independence
- Enforcement of standards - Increased concurrency
- Improved backup and recovery services
Disadvantages of DBMS
- Complexity, Size, Cost of DBMSs, Additional H/W costs
- Cost of conversion, Performance, Higher impact of a failure
Three-Level Database Architecture
External Level
The users view of the database
Conceptual Level
The community view of the database
Internal Level
The physical representation of the database on the computer

Functions of a DBMS
1. Data storage, retrieval, and update
2. A user-accessible catalog
3. Transaction support
4. Concurrency control services
5. Recovery services
6. Authorization services
7. Support for data communication
8. Integrity services
9. Services to promote data independence
10. Utility services
Components of a DBMS




Application
Programs
Queries
Database
Schema
DML
preprocessor
Query
processor
DDL
compiler
Program
object code
Database
manager
Dictionary
manager
Access
methods
File
manager
System
buffers
DBMS
Programmers Users DBA
Database and
system catalog

Components of Database Manager




Authorization
control
Integrity
checker
Command
processor
Query
optimizer
Transaction
manager
Scheduler
Buffer
manager
Recovery
manager
Data
Manager

History of RDBMS
History of DBMS
1960s - Apollo moon-landing project, GUAM
mid 1960s - IMS by IBM (hierarchical DBMS)
mid 1960s - IDS by GE (network DBMS)
1965 - CODASYL(Conference on Data SYStems
Language)
1967 -DBTG(Data Base Task Group)
1970 - E.F.Codd of the IBM Research Lab.
Late 1970s - System R project at IBM
1980s - commercial relational DBMS(DB2, Oracle,
Informix..)
Now - OODBMS, ORDBMS

Terminology
Relation : a relation is a table with columns and rows
Attribute : an attribute is a named column of a relation
Domain : a domain is the set of allowable values for
one or more attributes
Tuple : a tuple is a row of a relation
Degree : the degree of a relation is the number of
attributes it contrains
Cardinality : the cardinality of a relation is the number
of tuples it contains
Relational database : a collection of normalized
relation
Properties of Relations
The relation has a name that is distinct from all other
relation names
Each cell of the relation contains exactly on atomic
value
Each attribute has a distinct name
The values of an attribute are all from the same domain
The order of attributes has no significance
Each tuple is distinct; there are no duplicate tuples
The order of tuples has no significance, theoretically
When is a DBMS Relational?
Foundational rules
Rule 0 : Foundational rule Rule 12 : Nonsubversion rule
Structural rules
Rule 1 : Information representation Rule 6 : View updateing
Integrity rules
Rule 3 : Systematic treatment of null values Rule 10 : Integrity independance
Data manipulation rules
Rule2 : Guaranteed access Rule 4 : Dynamic online catalog based on the
relational model
Rule5 : Comprehensive data sublanguage Rule7 : High-level insert, update, delete
Data independence rules
Rule8 : Physical data independence Rule 9 : Logical data independence
Rule11 : Distribution independence
Entity-Relationship Modeling
Concepts of the E-R Modeling
Entity Types
An object or concept that is identified by the enterprise as having an
independent existence
Attributes
A property of an entity or a relationship type
Relationship Types
A meaningful association among entity types
Normalization
A technique for producing a set of relations with desirable
properties, given the data requirements of an enterprise
UNF is a table that contains one or more repeating groups
1NF is a relation in which the intersection of each row and column contains one
and only one value
2NF is a relation that is in 1NF and every non-primary-key attribute is fully
functionally dependent on the primary key.
3NF is a relation that is in 1NF, 2NF in which no non-primary-key attribute is
transitively dependent on the primary key
BCNF is a relation in which every determinant is a candidate key
4NF is a relation that is in BCNF and contains no trivial multi-valued
dependency
5NF is a relation that contains no join dependency
Conceptual Database Design
The process of constructing a model of the information
used in an enterprise, independent of all physical
considerations
Logical Database Design
The process of constructing a model of the information
used in an enterprise based on a specific data model,
but independent of a particular DBMS and other
physical considerations.
Physical Database Design
The process of producing a description of the
implementation of the database on secondary storage;
it describes the storage structures and access
methods used to archieve efficient access to the data
Database Language
SQL
1974 - SEQUEL by D.Chamberlin (IBM)
1975 - SQUARE by Boyce (System R project)
1976 - SEQUEL/2 (SQL) by Chamberlin and Boyce)
late 1970 - SQL(Oracle), QUEL(Ingres)
1982 - Relational Database Language(RDL) : ANSI
1987 - ISO standard
1989 - Integrity Enhancement Feature (ISO)
1992 - SQL2(SQL92) : ISO

DML
SELECT
INSERT
UPDATE
DELETE
DDL
CREATE(DROP) SCHEMA
CREATE(ALTER, DROP) DOMAIN
CREATE(ALTER, DROP) TABLE
CREATE(DROP) VIEW
CREATE(DROP) INDEX
Advanced SQL
View
Integrity Enhancement Feature
Primary key
Unique
Foreign key
Access Control
Embedded SQL
Host Language Variables
Application Programming Interface
Dynamic SQL

Part 2. Understanding Oracle Database
Overview of oracle Database Architecture
Memory Structure
Process Structure
Storage Structure
New Features
Overview of Oracle Architecture
SGA
Shared SQL Area Database Buffer Cashe
KByte
1,200,000
KByte
Redo Log
Buffer
KByte 2,100 KByte
PMON
LGWR
Data File
Raw Device
Server
USER
ARCH
TL-812
Archive Log Mode(50M)
* Fixed Size :
70 Kbyte
* Variavle Size :
490 MByte
4,000,000 KByte
* Total SGA Size :
1700 Mbyte
DBW0 CKPT
SMON RECO D000 S000 P000
Memory Structure : Shared Pool

Shared Pool
Library Cache
Shared
SQL Area
PL/SQL Procedures
and Package
Control Structures
for examples;

Locks
Library
Cache handles
and so on ...
Dictionary
Cache
Control Structures
for example:

Character Set
Conversion
Memory
Network Security
Attributes

and so on ..
Shared Pool Contents
- Text of the SQL or PL/SQL statement
- Parsed form of the SQL or PL/SQL statement
- Execution plan for the SQL or PL/SQL
statements
- Data dictionary cache containing rows of data
dictionary information
Library Cache
- shared SQL area
- private SQL area
- PL/SQL procedures and package
- control structures : lock and library cache handles
Dictionary Cache
- names of all tables and views in the database
- names and datatypes of columns in database tables
- privileges of all Oracle users
SHARED_POOL_SIZE
Reusable
Runtime
Memory
Memory Structure :Database Buffer Cache
Database Buffer Cache holds copies of data blocks read from disk
All users concurrently connected to the system share access to the buffer cache
Dirty List
LRU List
Size = DB_BLOCK_SIZE * DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS
SGA
Shared Pool
Shared SQL Area
Database Buffer Cache
Memory Structure :Redo Log Buffer
Circular buffer containing information about changes made to the database
save it redo entry
Redo Entries is used when Database Recovery
DBWR write contents of Redo Log Buffer to Online Redo Log
LOG_BUFFER
change vector #1
change vector #1
change vector #1
redo record
Oracle Processes
Snnn
Users
DBWR
SGA
Database Buffer Cache Redo Log
Buffer
Data
Files
Redo Log
Files
Control
Files
Offline
Storage
Device
Dedicated
Server
Process
LCK0 RECO PMON SMON
CKPT
User
Process
Dnnn
LGWR ARCH
SNPn
Pnnn
Background Process
DBWR (Database Writer)
- write all dirty buffers to datafiles
- Use a LRU algorithm to keep most recently used blocks in memory
- Defers write for I/O optimization
dirty list reaches a threshold length
A process scnas a specifed number of buffer in the LRU without finding free buffer
A time-out occurs
DBWR checkpoint occurs
LGWR (Log Writer)
- writes redo log entries to disk
Commit occurs
The redo log buffers pool becomes one-third full
DBWR completes cleaning the buffer blocks at a checkpoint
LGWR time-out
- A commit confirmation is not issued until the tx has been recorded in the rego
log file
Contd
PMON (Process Monitor)
- Cleans up abnormally terminated connection
- Rolls back uncommited transactions
- Releases locks held by a terminated process
- Frees SGA resources allocated to the failed processes
- Database maintenance

SMON (System Monitor)
- Performs automatic instance recovery
- Reclaims space used by temporary segments no longer in use
- Merges contiguous area of free space in the datafile
Contd
CKPT (Check Point)
- is enabled by setting the parameter CHECKPOINT_PROCESS=TRUE
- If enabled, take over LGWRs task of updating files at a checkpoint
- Updates header of datafiles and control files at the end of checkpoint
- More frequent checkpoint reduce recovery time from instance failure
- CKPT improve the performance of database with many database files
ARCH (Archiver)
- Copies redo log files to tape or disk for media failure
- Operates only when a log switch occurs
- Is optional and is only needed when in ARCHIVELOG mode
- May write to a tape drive or to a disk
LCKn (Lock), Dnnn (Dispatcher), Snnn (Server),
RECO (Recover), Pnnn(Parallel), SNPn(Job Queue),
QMNn(Queue Monitor),
Server/User Process
User Processes
- A user process is used when a user runs an application program
- Runs the tool/application and is considered the client
- Passes SQL to the server process and receives the results

Server Processes
- A server process must place the data in the database buffer cache
- Parce and execute SQL statements
- Read data blocks from disk into the shred database buffers of the SGA
- Return the results of SQL statements to the user process
Parse : check syntax, security access, object resolution, optimization
Execute : applies the parse tree to the data, perform a physical read and
change
Fetch : Passes data to the user (only SELECT)
Oracle Files
Datafile
Redo Log Files
Control Files
Parameter File
Archive File
Log File (alert*.log, sqlnet.log, listener.log...)
Trace File
Storage Architecture
Physical storage structures
Data files
Segments
Extents
Blocks
Logical storage structures
Tablespaces
Tables / Clusters / Indexes
Rows
Columns
Physical Storage Architecture
Relationship among Segments, Extents, and Blocks
Extent
24K
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Extent
72K
Segment
96K
Database Blocks
Logical Storage Architecture
Relationship between tablespaces and datafiles





USER Tablespace
System Tablespace
Database
DATA3.ORA
DATA1.ORA DATA2.ORA
Contd
Objects stored in tablespaces


Table Table
Table
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
INDEX
Tablespace (one or more datafiles)
Database Files
(Physical structures associated
with only one tablespace)
Objects
(stored in tablespace may
span serveral datafiles)
Block
Header
Table Dictionary
Row Dictionary
Free Space
Row Data

General Block Information
(Block add, Segment type)
85 ~ 100 bytes

Table info in Cluster


Row info in Block
(2 byte per row)

using when New Row
Insert or Update
(pctfree, pctused)

Table or Index Data

PCTFREE / PCTUSED
PCTFREE
20% Free space
PCTUSED
PCTFREE = 20
PCTUSED = 40
61% Free space
Insert new row until 80%
20% use when Update
Can insert new row when below 60%
When Usage is below 40% (61% Free
space), block is listed in FREELIST
Extent
A set of contiguous database blocks within a datafile.
Extent are allocated when.
- The segment is created (INITIAL EXTENT)
- The segments grows (NEXT EXTENT)
- The table is altered to allocate extents.
Extent are de-allocated when the
- The segment is dropped and truncated.
- The segment is larger than optimal and contains free extents
(for rollback segments only)
Each segment is created with at least on extend( initial extent )
( Rollback segment : 2)
ALTER TABLE table_name DEALLOCATE UNUSED
Segment
a set of one or more extents that contains all the data for a specific type of logical storage
structure within a tablespace
Data Segment
- A collection of extents that holds all of the data for a table or a cluster
Index Segment
- A collection of extents that holds all of the index data for search optimization on large tables
and clusters
Rollback Segment
- A collection of extents that holds rollback data for rollback, read-consistency, or recovery
Temporary segment
- A collection of extents that holds data belonging to temporary tables created during a sort
operation
Bootstrap segment
- An extent that contains dictionary definitions for dictionary tables to be loaded when the
database is opened.

Oracle8 New Feature
VLDB, Warehouse
Parallel DML
Parallel Index Scans
Star Query Optimization



OLTP
Objects
Advanced Queuing
XA rewrite
Memory reduction
Serially reusable memory
New OCI Interface
Improve Function Performance


Partitioning
Parallel Backup/Recovery
Incremental Backup
Point-in-time Recovery
Object Relational Database
Object Type
Object View
Network Computing
Simple User Integration
Simple Maintenance
Simple Development
Oracle8i New Features
Data Warehousing OLTP
Application Development Security
Summary management
Analytic function
Hash and Composite Paritioning
Resource Management
Transportable tablespace
Functional index, virtual column
Publish and subscribe capabilities
Database event trigger
Single table hash cluster
Object type column in partition table
Partitioned index-organized table
Stable optimizer execution plans
Oracle Jserver, VM in Database
Java stored procedure, function..
SQLJ: embedded SQL in Java
WebDB
Virtual Private Database
LDAP integration
N-tier authentication/authorization
SSL and X.509v3, RAIDUS support
Data encrypt, decrypt
Oracle 9i - The eBusiness Platform
Oracle9i continues Oracle8i's focus on the Internet by providing a series of
specific capabilities and product bundles targeted at eBusiness environments. In
addition, Oracle9i continues to add features and capabilities that extends existing
investment in mission-critical infrastructure. Oracle9i has been designed with
focus on certain key development areas.
Key Infrastructure Area
Availability
Scalability and Performance
Security
Development Platform
Manageability
Windows2000 Integration
Key Application Area
Internet Contents Management
B2B and B2C eBusiness
Packaged Application
Business Intelligence
Oracle Client/Server Architecture
NETWORK
Server A
Server b
Client
Application
Server/Server
Client/Server
Benefit of Client/Server Component
- Database S/W work on Server
- Minimize network resource
- concurrency, consistency, transparency

- Only Server upgrade to increase size
- Minimize Client H/W spec
- concurrency, consistency, transparency
SQL*Net
What is SQL*Net?
- Oracles Client/Server middleware product
- transparent connection from client tool to DB ( from on DB to another )
- works across multiple network protocol and operation system
What is TNS?
- Transparent Network Substrate
- Oracles Network applications to access the underlying network protocols transparently
- TNS-based application, Oracle Protocol Adapters, Network software like TCP/IP
Configuration File
- TNSNAME.ORA ( Client )
- TNSNAV.ORA ( Client )
- SQLNET.ORA ( Client, Server )
- LISTENER.ORA ( Server )
SQL*Net Configuration
TNSNAME.ORA
info =
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS_LIST=
(ADDRESS=
(PROTOCOL=tcp)
(HOST=brinfoa01)
(PORT=1521)
)
)
(CONNECT_DATA=
(SID=BRBINFO1)
)
)
LISTENER.ORA
LISTENER=
(ADDRESS_LIST=
(ADDRESS=
(PROTOCOL=tcp)
(HOST=brinfoa01)
(PORT=1521)
)
)
SID_LIST_LISTENER=
(SID_LIST=
(SID_DESC=
(SID_NAME=BRBINFO1)
(ORACLE_HOME=/oracle7/oracle7)
(ENVS='EPC_DISABLED=TRUE')
)
)
STARTUP_WAIT_TIME_LISTENER=0
CONNECT_TIMEOUT_LISTENER=0
LOG_DIRECTORY_LISTENER=/oracle7/oracle7/network/log
LOG_FILE_LISTENER=listener
TRACE_LEVEL_LISTENER=OFF
SQLNET.ORA
# SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME = 0
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_S
ERVICES=(none, beq)
Net8
Networking Challenge
Support large mission-critical
client/server, and provide migration
path towards distributed object
architecture

Net8 Focus
1. Scalability : Connection Pooling, Multiplexing(Connection Manager)
2. Manageability : Configuration-free installation option,
Centralized client administration, Automated client configuration
3. Security : Oracle Security Server
ODBC / oo4o / JDBC
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity )
- Provide a way for client program (eg VB, Excel, Access) to access database
- is a standardized API, developed according to the specification of the SQL
Access Group, than allows one to connect to SQL database
oo4o (Oracle Object for OLE)
- a middleware product manufactured by Oracle that allows native access to Oracle7
databases from client applications via the Microsoft OLE standard
- OLE 2.0 Automation Server, Oracle Data Control, Two C++ Class Library
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity )
- a set of classes and interfaces written in Java to allow other Java programs to send
SQL statements to a relational database management system
- JDBC Thin for Java applets, JDBC OCI for Java application

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