Oracle Server Administrator's Guide Release 8.0 A54641_01 |
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This guide describes how to manage the Oracle Server, a relational database management system (RDBMS).
Information in this guide applies to the Oracle Server, running on all operating systems. It provides information about the base Oracle Server. This guide also refers to other manuals that describe special options, including the following:
This guide is for people who administer the operation of an Oracle database system. These people, referred to as "database administrators" (DBAs), are assumed to be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of an Oracle database system and for monitoring its use. The responsibilities of database administrators are described in Chapter 1.
Readers of this guide are assumed to be familiar with relational database concepts. They are also assumed to be familiar with the operating system environment under which they are running Oracle.
As a prerequisite, all readers should read the first chapter of Oracle8 Server Concepts, "A Technical Introduction to the Oracle Server." This chapter is a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and terminology used throughout this guide.
Administrators frequently participate in installing the Oracle Server software and migrating existing Oracle databases to newer formats (for example, Version 7 databases to Oracle8 format). This guide is not an installation or migration manual.
If your primary interest is installation, see your operating system-specific Oracle documentation.
If your primary interest is database or application migration, see the Oracle8 Server Migration manual.
In addition to administrators, experienced users of Oracle and advanced database application designers might also find information in this guide useful.
However, database application developers should also see the Oracle8 Server Application Developer's Guide and the documentation for the tool or language product they are using to develop Oracle database applications.
Every reader of this guide must read Chapter 1 of the Oracle8 Server Concepts manual, "Introduction to the Oracle Server." This overview of the concepts and terminology related to Oracle provides a foundation for the more detailed information in this guide. The rest of the Oracle8 Server Concepts manual explains the Oracle architecture and features, and how they operate in more detail.
The following sections explain the conventions used in this guide.
This guide provides examples of the dialog boxes and menus of Enterprise Manager, your primary utility for managing an Oracle database. Illustrations show the character mode Server Manager screen. However, the actual appearance of your screen may differ, depending on your system's user interface.
For more information on Enterprise Manager, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager User's Guide.
SQL, Enterprise Manager, and SQL*Plus commands and statements appear separated from the text of paragraphs in a fixed-width font:
ALTER TABLESPACE users ADD DATAFILE 'users2.ora' SIZE 50K;
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