Welcome to Extended Database Features, the last of five courses in the Oracle Database Administration Certification Series.
Taken together, these courses teach you to create and manage an Oracle database.

This course focuses on the structures within an Oracle database.
After completing this course, you willl be able to:

1. Use partitioned tables to improve performance and reduce maintenance time
2. Use clustered tables and indexes to improve the retrieval performance of your Oracle database
3. Understand and use index-organized tables
4. Audit the database activity for your Oracle database
5. Use your Oracle database to store non-English data
6. Use product profiles to control access to features and data
7. Use triggers to extend the functional capabilities of your Oracle database

This course, in conjunction with the other four courses in the Oracle8 Database Administration Certification Series, will prepare you for the following Oracle certification exam:
Oracle DBA Certification
This database administration exam is one of five exams that you must pass in order to earn certification as an Oracle8 database administrator. You can learn more about Oracle's certification requirements and exams by visiting
The next lesson discusses the course database.