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In this course, author David Rivers shows you the basics of using Microsoft OneNote 2013 to create, edit, and save notes. Discover easy ways to format your text, organize notebooks, use stationery, work with tables, perform research, and integrate your notes with Outlook. For new notetakers, the "Getting Started" chapter provides an overview of the complete workflow, so you can quickly get up and running with OneNote. Plus, learn about new features included in OneNote 2013, such as how to sync notes with SkyDrive.
In Online Marketing Fundamentals, Lorrie Thomas Ross introduces web marketers, web designers, business owners, and executives to the world of online marketing. The course takes a look at the basis of any online marketing effort—a business's web site—and reviews how the different components of the site can support the business's goals, from SEO and SEM to social media, online PR, and content marketing.
Get ready to delve headlong into the world of OpenOffice.org. Geoff Blake will guide you through tasks and hands-on techniques to get the most out of OpenOffice.org. Begin by getting the suite installed on either Mac or PC, then get right to it with Writer, where you'll learn to work with word processing, document formatting, tables, and graphics. Then, it's on to the spreadsheet application Calc where you'll learn how to enter and manage data, format your spreadsheets, and work with calculations. Next, learn how to create full-screen presentations with Impress. Discover layouts, presentation options, and techniques for running a slide show. After that you'll learn to create and manage objects, shapes, and other graphical content in Draw. Finally, finish things up in Base, OpenOffice.org's database application. Learn how to create tables, enter data via a customized form, and run queries.
openSUSE 11 is the latest version of Novell's community-based Linux distribution. VTC author, Bobby Rogers, takes you from installation through configuration and on to using and enjoying this versatile, solid operating system. During this course, you'll learn: how to install and securely configure openSUSE 11 for home use, how to use it in a networked environment, how to use openSUSE for productivity, and securely use it on the Internet. You'll also learn how to enjoy the rich features built-in to openSUSE, to include multimedia, graphics, and even games. This course will also help you to decide why Linux is right for you!
Oracle 10g is a database that runs on Linux, Unix and Windows servers. Oracle Database 10g can be used to automate administrative tasks, providing security and regulatory compliance features, and enabling the highest availability with Real Application Clusters. In this VTC tutorial you will install and configure an Oracle 10g database, as well as review several programming choices to work with your database.
This is the second in a series of courses, aimed at preparing the user for Oracle Certification Exam # 1Z0-031. This course will teach Oracle database administration fundamentals; installing Oracle, creating databases, managing objects in the database and more. This course expands on the first course offered by VTC (Introduction to Oracle SQL and PL/SQL). Following courses will include: Oracle Database Administration Fundamentals II and Oracle Database Performance Tuning.
Oracle Database Administration Fundamentals II is the third in a series of four courses covering Oracle Certification course #1Z0-032, and more. Like the other courses in this series of Oracle Certification titles, this course teaches and demonstrates by example using thoroughly tested examples. In this course, instructor Gavin Powell covers Oracle Net Services, Backup and Recovery including RMAN, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Transportable Tablespaces and SQL*Loader. In addition, there are small sections introducing other Oracle optional features such as Standby databases (both Logical and Physical) plus Replication (both traditional and using Streams). Net Services covers architecture, connection configuration, listener configuration (from basics to connection profiling and load balancing), all the facts about connection strings and Oracle Net Services naming methods, even introducing some advanced features.
Veteran VTC instructor Bobby Rogers facilitates this review course for the Oracle Certified Associate on Solaris 11 certification exam. Designed for both novice and experienced administrators, the course will cover all exam objectives for the 1Z0-821 exam, including installing Solaris 11, the Image Packaging System, administering Oracle Solaris Zones, the ZFS file system, networking, controlling access to systems and files, and managing users. This course also covers Solaris 11.1 updates.
Virtual Training Company's Introduction to Oracle SQL and PL/SQL tutorial will cover the relational Database Model, the Oracle Architecture and the Physical database. The tutorial is aimed at programmers, and individuals who have had prior SQL and relational database experience. Gavin Powell, your instructor, will begin teaching you many Oracle tools such as the SQL Plus, SQL Plus Worksheet, and Oracle Enterprise Manager. This tutorial will explain how to maintain the Logical Database, and the difference between the Logical Database and the Physical database. You will be guided, in great detail, in the following areas: retrieving, changing, adding, and deleting data from the Database. From there, you will learn about Logical Database objects, Security, Select Statements, and much more. Introduction to Oracle SQL and PL/SQL will cover areas for the Oracle Certification course (1Z0-007).
VTC author, Gavin Powell, covers material in the 1Z0-033 Oracle 9i tuning certification examination, including the basics of performance tuning and tuning tools. Memory tuning covers the shared pool, the database buffer cache and other buffers. From an I/O perspective, topics covered are physical file structures of the database, tablespaces, datafiles and at the block level. Also covered are sorting, locking, latches and wait events, shared or dedicated server processes, statistics, SQL code tuning and resource management. There is also brief coverage of tuning in the operating system, plus specialized objects use.