One of the most critical aspects of building effective systems is the successful management of unstructured/semi-structured information. The database is no longer only a place to store dollars and cents for the purposes of accounting. Efficient manipulation of JSON has become one of the most critical elements of contemporary database infrastructure.

Even though you can store JSON documents in VARCHAR2 columns, in reality you will quickly outgrow VARCHAR2 size limitations and will have to switch to CLOBs for storage. However, few people in the development community really understand the underlying mechanics of Oracle LOB datatypes and consider it yet another DBA issue! This presentation attempt to fill that knowledge gap:

Core conceptual elements of how Oracle works with LOBs (multi-segment storage, IO mechanism, copy semantics/pointer semantics, etc.)
SecureFiles/BasicFiles implementation issues
Best practices of LOB manipulation (both generic and JSON-related)

Overall, this presentation gives database developers sufficient knowledge to be able to build efficient modern applications. Real-life examples will be included to pinpoint key ideas and solutions.