#ispeakOracle Workshop DB

1)
Oracle Database Architecture
An Oracle Database Server consists of a Database and at least one Database
Instance.
a)
What is the meaning of a Database?
b)
What is the meaning of a Database Instance?
The database has physical structures and logical structures.
c)
Can you give examples of the physical storage structures?
d)
Can you give examples of logical storage structures?
The background processes of the Oracle instance manage memory structures,
perform I/O to write data to a file on a disk, and perform general maintenance
tasks.
e)
Can you name 3 background processes?
The sizes of the instance memory structures affect database performance and
are controlled by initialization parameters.
f)
Can you name 3 components of the SGA?
2)
Oracle Database Development
An Oracle Database developer is responsible for creating or maintaining the
database components of an application that uses the Oracle technology stack.
Oracle Database developers either develop applications or convert existing
applications to run in the Oracle Database environment.
Oracle Database groups related information into logical structures
called schemas. The logical structures are called schema objects.
g)
Can you give example of 3 objects that schemas can contain?
Data manipulation language (DML) statements access and manipulate data in
existing tables.
h)
What DML statements do you know?
Each value manipulated by Oracle Database has a datatype. The datatype of a
value associates a fixed set of properties with the value.
i)
Name 3 data types in Oracle.