Oracle Streams Training Class

This course is taught at your Company site with up to 20 students. 

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Optional supplemental mentoring

*Learn expert secrets for high speed data replication

* Understand the successful installation and configuration techniques

* Use Oracle Streams to create a reliable failover database

* Achieve global data sharing and seamless data replication

* Learn the tricks to easily manage subscribed destinations

* Get working scripts to improve streams management

* Learn to customize data apply functions

* Understand tricks for rule-based propagation and data transformations
 

Unlike some mediocre Oracle Streams training, this course examines all Oracle Streams features with an eye on those features that are the most important to you.

This Oracle Streams training is special because this course is taught by a veteran Oracle Certified DBA with more than 20 years of full-time experience.  This Oracle Streams class can also be customized according to your specific needs.
 

		Oracle Streams High Speed Replication and Data Sharing Madhu Tumma ISBN 0-9745993-5-2

This course is designed for practicing Oracle professionals who have basic experience with Oracle. Prior experience with Oracle is not required, but experience using Oracle database is highly desirable.
 

INTRODUCTION

Data Sharing
• Growing Need
• Global Operations
• Heterogeneous Systems

Data Synchronization
• Data Movement
• Data Transformation
• Data Migration
• Data Replication

What is Oracle Streams?

Why Oracle Streams?

Where to use Streams Mechanism
• Replication
• AQ – Advanced Queuing
• Event Management
• Data Loading
• Summarization of Data
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Streams Historical Growth
• Advanced Replication
• Advanced Queuing

Related Oracle Technologies
• Log Miner
• Standby – Data Guard

Peer Products
• Sybase Replication
• Quest Shareplex
• GoldenGate
• Data Mirror


Streams Components and Processes


Producer and Consumer

LCR Object details

• Row LCR
• DDL LCR
• Additional Attributes

Hot Mining and Cold Mining

Log based Changes

Capture Process

Propagation of Changes

Apply Process

Queuing and Dequeuing

Rules and Rules Engine
• Application of Rules
• Transformation
• Contexts

Streams Tags

Directed Network

DownStreams Capture

Change Data Capture

LogMiner

Supplemental Logging

Sys.Anydata Object

DML Handlers

Streams Replication

Source
• Database Changes
• User Application Message

Destination Database

Data Types for Replication

Rules
• Rule Set
• Capture Rules
• Propagation Rules
• Apply Rules
• Contexts
• Transformations

Instantiation
• Capture process for Instantiation
• Oracle Data Pump for Instantiation
• Export and Import for Instantiation

The Role of Streams Tags
• How to create
• Utility of Tags
• Tags for Apply Process

Methodology

Examples


DAY 2
Capture and Propagation Configuration

Capture Mechanism

• Data Types
• DML Changes and Considerations (I, U, U, D and M)
• Types of DDL(s)
• NoLogging and Unrecoverable
• Supplemental Logging
• Instantiation
• Local v/s DownStream
• The Role of SCN
• In Restricted Session

Capture Process

• Components
• Capture States
• Multiple Processes
• Rule Evaluation
• Parallelism

Propagation and Staging
• Schedules
• Configuration
• Monitoring

Application of Rules

• Rule Set
• Capture Rules
• Propagation Rules


Apply Configuration

Apply Process

• DML Handlers

Application of Rules

• Rule Set
• Apply Rules
• Contexts
• Transformations

Methodology

Examples

Troubleshooting and Monitoring


Conflict Detection

Conflict Resolution

Monitoring Streams Data Flow

Helpful Scenarios

 

StreamsMonitoring
 
1 – Monitoring advanced queuing
 
2 – Monitoring AQ propagation

3 – Monitoring Streams apply handlers
 
Streams troubleshooting
 
1 – OS issues - Finding a full directory, zombie or runaway process
 
2 – Troubleshooting the apply handler – determine root cause of hang
 
3 – Advanced Troubleshooting – AQ scripts, network troubleshooting (ping)