Managing Ingres Installations and Databases

This course is aimed at delegates who will be responsible for managing an Ingres database and installation under Linux, UNIX, VMS, or Windows. It covers all aspects of planning, installation, configuration, and day to day running of the Ingres installation. It also covers all aspects of database administration including: managing database objects such as tables, indexes, applications etc.; data integrity; security; backup and recovery; table maintenance and optimization.

You will experience Ingres’ own fantastic lectures, demonstrations and practicals to reinforce the course contents. The course does not focus on a particular operating system but uses examples for the Linux, Unix, Windows and VMS operating systems throughout the course material.

Day 1

• Roles of the Ingres systems and database administrator
• Ingres architecture components
• Planning an Ingres Installation
• Performing an Ingres Installation
• Starting and stopping Ingres
• Communications facilities
• Logging system
• Locking system

Day 2

• The Recovery System
• Logging and the Recovery Server
• The DBMS Server
• Configuring Ingres
• Configuration-By-Forms
• Rules Files
• The Master Database

Day 3

• User maintenance
• Location maintenance
• Environment variables
• Customising Backup and Recovery
• IMA
• Creating and destroying databases
• System catalogs
• Unloading and reloading databases

Day 4

• Managing tables, secondary indexes, views
• Managing user interface objects
• Data integrity and security
• Database object access
• Authorising and monitoring access
• Database and installation privileges
• Backing up databases

Day 5

• Journaling
• Recovering databases
• Maintaining and optimizing databases
• Overflow
• Optimizer and statistics
• Benchmarking queries
• Maintenance scripts
• Managing disk space