OCA Oracle9i Associate DBA Certification Exam Guide

Jason Couchman (Brooklyn, NY) is a database consultant and author of Oracle8i Certified Professional DBA Certification Exam Guide, also from Oracle Press. He is a regular presenter on Oracle and OCP at international Oracle user conferences and meetings. His work has been published by Oracle Magazine, Harvard Business School Publishing, and Gannett Newspapers, among others. Sudheer Marisetti is a database, Unix, and Web administrator and president of Abacus Concepts Inc., a New Jersey-based consulting firm specializing in designing, building, and maintaining database systems. He is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University teaching advanced Oracle administration classes. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering.

Part I: Preparing for OCA DBA Exam I: Introduction to SQL; Ch. 1. Overview of Oracle Database; Ch. 2. Limiting, Sorting and Manipulating Return Data; Ch. 3. Advanced Data Selection in Oracle; Ch. 4. Subqueries; Ch. 5. Creating Oracle Database Objects; Ch. 6. Manipulating Oracle Data; Ch. 7. Creating Other Database Objects in Oracle; Ch. 8. User Access Control in Oracle; Part II: OCA Oracle9i SQL Practice Exams Ch. 9. OCA Exam I: Introduction to SQL; Part III: Preparing for OCA Database Fundamentals I Exam; Ch. 10. Basics of the Oracle Database Architecture; Ch. 11. Managing the Physical Database Structure; Ch. 12. Managing Tablespaces and Datafiles; Ch. 13. Storage Structures and Undo Data; Ch. 14. Managing Database Objects; Ch. 15. Managing Database Users; Part IV: OCA Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals I Practice Exams; Ch. 16. OCA Database Administration Fundamentals I; Appendix; A. Globalization Support