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This course explores the HADB internals, delving deeper into topics introduced in WMT-IAS-2434: Fundamentals of Highly Available Database. It focuses on providing students with advanced management, performance tuning, and troubleshooting techniques for HADB.
Course Length
4 - 5 hours
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Languages
English
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Format
Tech Talk
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Course Features and Services
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are:
- Developers and quality engineers who use HADB as component products, such as 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 and need deeper insight to support/troubleshoot the products
- The administrators who deploy Sun products at customer sites who need deeper understanding of HADB to manage and tune HADB instances correctly
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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 of Fault Tolerance, preferred though not required.
- Understand the fundamentals of HADB
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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Perform advanced configurations
- Scale HADB
- Monitor HADB
- Tune HADB
- Use the new management system introduced in the Sun Java System Application Server 7 2004Q2 Windows version, which will be used in the Sun Java System Application Server 8.1.
In addition, the course reveals the HADB internals, which provides the knowledge essential to perform the advanced management and tuning tasks.
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Course Content
Module 1 - Inside HADB
- Explain how HADB executes a transaction
- How a client connection is handled
- How two-phase commit works
- Explain how HADB stores and manages data, including shared memory layout, disk devices, checkpointing and locking.
- Describe how HADB nodes keep a consistent system view
Module 2 - Performing Advanced Management Tasks
- Configure the database to use heterogeneous data devices and double networks
- Manage a domain
- Scale the database online
- Describe how to upgrade the software and hardware on the HADB machines online, ie: Rolling Upgrade.
- Retrieve resource usage information
- Use the query tool - clusql to access the database
Module 3 - Monitoring and Tuning HADB
- Describe what an administrator should monitor
- How the database and the OS interact
- Which database configuration variables need to be tuned, and how to tune them
- Describe procedures for debugging HADB
- Describe the tasks performed by an administrator
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