Date: 27-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/WMT-IAS-3435.xml

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

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

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 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

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

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.

Related Courses

Before:

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

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