This document provides a summary of several database administration (DBA) commands and concepts relevant for developers. It discusses topics such as count(1) vs count(*), gathering system statistics, setting the DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT parameter, analyzing tables, explaining plans, monitoring SQL performance, full table scans, pending statistics, restoring statistics history, parallel DML, Flashback Query, DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO, and privileges for reading tables. The document is intended to help developers better understand and work with database configurations and operations.