3 Getting Started with Database Administration

This chapter provides a brief roadmap for administering your database, and introduces you to Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control (Database Control), the Web-based interface for managing an Oracle database.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Managing Your Database: A Roadmap

• Introduction to Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control

• Starting and Stopping the Database Control Console Process

• Accessing the Database Home Page

• Access to Database Control for Nonadministrative Users

• Creating Database Control Administrative Users

• Setting Database Control Preferences

• About SQL and SQL-Based Management Tools

• Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Manager: Oracle By Example Series