The goal of this book is to provide you with a single source for most of your day-to-day Oracle
database management tasks. Of course, it isn’t feasible to cover each and every DBA topic in detail.
What I’ve done in this book is focus on the topics that are common to most enterprises, such as installing
the Oracle Database 11g software, creating and upgrading databases, exporting and importing data,
backing up and recovering data, and performance tuning. I place a lot of emphasis in this book on
explaining all of Oracle’s automatic management solutions. Using Oracle’s automatic management
features will keep you from reinventing the wheel each time. It also turns out that after several years
of development, Oracle has finally placed in your hands a set of powerful management advisors and
other tools that make a lot of traditional DBA work obsolete.
