In this hands-on lab, you will learn about new ways to upgrade, migrate, and consolidate databases in Oracle Database 12c. Specifically, you will; Upgrade a database to 12c, using the new command-line parallel upgrade script; Plug that database into an Oracle Database 12c container database as a pluggable database (PDB); Migrate a second database to…

This presentation will look at which 12c tuning features should be investigated for use.  Many of the tuning features that will be covered will be related to the DBA, but there will also be a few outside that realm that focus on the developer.  There will be simple examples (such as a quick example using a new hint) to show the basic functionality of the new features.  The speaker has been working with the Beta 12c program.

Successfully deploying and optimizing an Oracle Database environment can be a daunting task. In this session, you’ll learn about: The key ingredients for a successful Oracle Database 12c installation. A methodology to diagnose and remove performance bottlenecks by taking a closer look at the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel parameters that can affect the…

This presentation will show the top tips when tuning your architecture using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. Oracle has come a long when from when they first introduced Enterprise Manager. The product continues to improve and the installation continues to get better and easier. The main focus of this presentation is to show many…

Part one of this two-part series covers five things that Oracle Database 12c is not.

Introducing Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, the only complete cloud management solution built and engineered to help you reduce IT complexity and improve your agility to changing business needs. Join us for an in-depth look at the new and unique benefits Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c has to offer. See first-hand how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c brings…

In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large enterprises.The reason for private cloud adoption is simple – providing competitive business edge through continuous delivery. Providing developers with databases on demand while improving operational efficiency in a consolidated infrastructure is achievable using…

Join the Oracle Database Security Product team to learn about a new declarative and granular authorization model provided by the Oracle Database 12c Real Application Security (RAS) for Oracle Application Express (APEX). RAS enforces row and column level security based upon the application end user, application roles, and even application-specific privileges. Oracle Database 12c transparently…

Previous migrations of Oracle Enterprise Manager left a DBA with no fallback position and extensive outage periods for the actual upgrade. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c has been completely rewritten that includes a comprehensive step-by-step method of safely upgrading including a pre-defined fallback method to revert to. Best practices on using the new Pre-Upgrade Console to validate your existing Grid Control install and insure a error-free migration to 12c. The three different methods of upgrading will be covered with suggestions on how to migrate depending on your technical requirements.

The information technology industry has been a tremendous growth in Cloud delivery models for IT services in the past couple of years. More recently, the PaaS service model including Database-as-as-Service (DBaaS) has been gaining traction rapidly. Amazon's RDS public DBaaaS service supports Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server and enable rapid development lifecycles by giving end-users…