Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/WMT-IAS-2434.xml

Introducing the High Availability Database (WMT-IAS-2434)

Fundamentals of the Highly Available Database (HADB) (WMT-IAS-2434)

HADB is a highly available and scalable, always-on relational database management system. This course provides students with an understanding of the basic fundamentals of HADB architecture and how it works. Based on this knowledge, students can configure and manage an HADB instance using the management tool 'hadbm'.

Course Length

2 - 4 hours

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Languages

English

Format

Tech Talk

Course Features and Services

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are:

Developers and quality engineers who use HADB as a component in products, such as the Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition.
Technical consultants and support engineers who work with customers using the Application Server and other Sun products that have HADB as a component.
The administrators who deploy the products at customer sites.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

Have a basic understanding or experience or both with Relational/Distributed Database Management Systems(DBMS), Standard Query Language (SQL) and JDBC.
Have basic UNIX administration skills (Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) preferred)
Have a basic understanding on Fault Tolerance, preferred though not required

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Describe important features of HADB
List the available interfaces to HADB
Explain how high availability is achieved in HADB
Describe how high performance is achieved in HADB
Explain the failure classes masked by HADB
Configure an HADB instance
Perform essential management tasks using the management client 'hadbm'
Perform initial troubleshooting

Related Courses

After:

Advanced Management and Tuning of High Availability Database (HADB) (WMT-IAS-3435)

Course Content

Module 1 - Introducing HADB
Upon completion of this module, the student should be able to:

Describe the important features of HADB
List the available interfaces to HADB
Illustrate HADB Architecture
Explain how high availability is achieved in HADB by:
- Use of redundant hardware
- Data fragmented, replicated, and distributed across hosts
- Node monitoring and takeover when a failure occurs
- Automatic self-healing techniques
Describe how high performance is achieved
Explain the failure classes masked by HADB

Module 2 - Configuring, Managing, and Troubleshooting HADB (Demo included)
Upon completion of this module, the student should be able to:

Configure the system for a HADB database: Topology, Hardware, and OS
Configure and start Management Agents
Perform essential management tasks using the management client hadbm
Perform basic troubleshooting