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 10g 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.