Recently released Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control provides a complete, out-of-the-box integrated solution for total private cloud management. This session will have a step-by-step walk-through for cloud and self-service administrators who are setting up a private cloud based on Oracle VM 3.0 provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).…

With each new release of Oracle, the optimizer undergoes changes usually for the better, but sometimes there are unexpected side effects as well. This presentation will explore all of the new optimizer features, adaptive plans / statistics and the changes to SQL plan management . Several case studies will show how it works, so you…

Successfully deploying and optimizing an Oracle Database environment can be a daunting task. The two objectives of this session are to focus on the key ingredients for a successful Oracle Database 12c installation and to provide a methodology to diagnose and remove performance bottlenecks by taking a closer look at the different Red Hat Enterprise…

Organizations often need to create multiple copies of each production database for development, testing, training and other purposes. Redundant database copies not only magnify storage costs but also add administration overhead in creation and maintenance of cloned databases. These challenges can be addressed by the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Snap Clone feature together with the…

In July of 2013, Oracle released the 12c version of its flagship database. While much of the initial focus was on the new structural capabilities (i.e multi-tenancy), Oracle has also provided many new features available for developers. This presentation will outline some of the new 12c features of interest specifically to developers. Whitepaper PowerPoint

Exadata has been come the engineered system of choice when talking about high performance and databases.  Although Exadata is a great system, Oracle recommends that health checks be performed on an Exadata at least once a month to ensure performance and reliability of the system.  With this expectation Oracle provides a utility called Exachk.  ExaChk…

Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle RMAN) has evolved since being released in version 8i. With the newest version of Oracle 12c , RMAN has great new features that will allow you to reduce your down time in case of a disaster. In this session you will learn about the new features that were introduced in Oracle…

The most widely anticipated feature of Oracle Database 12c is now available, and you may be wondering just how you can move your current databases to pluggable databases in a multitenant architecture. Whether you are just starting to explore the world of pluggable databases or are planning a production upgrade in the near future to…

This presentation will look at which 12c new features should be investigated for use.  Most of the 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 pluggable…

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c enables complete management of Oracle Exadata, including management of the storage servers, the InfiniBand fabric, and Oracle Database and its Oracle Grid Infrastructure feature. This session presents an overview of how you can utilize Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to effectively monitor and manage Oracle Exadata, followed by a deep dive into performance management techniques using instrumentation from Oracle Exadata storage servers, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c’s Automatic Workload Respository and Active Session History features, and SQL monitoring.