This session will provide a blue print for customers to achieve Maximum Availability using  using Oracle RAC and Data Guard. We will go over the internals of the Architectures involved along with recommendations on each layer so Customers can attain maximum availabiliity.

Data is the life blood of your company, and Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Active Data Guard have long been the answer for the real-time protection, availability, and usability of your Oracle data. Attend this session to get an in-depth look at several key new features that will make your life easier and protect your…

Many DBAs and Architects think they understand Oracle database replication. But it is often only physical replication, as performed by Data Guard, rather than logical replication as done by GoldenGate, Streams and others. There are 3 fundamental principles that govern how these logical replication tools operate, centred on conversion, identification, and conflict handling of the…

Learn how to keep your system up and running continuously using Oracle built-in features and do it with relative ease. Oracle options will be shown, but we will go beyond the theory and show you how these are used on a critical production system. Hear the pros and cons of practical options that can be considered in 2018 including 12.2 and new 18c options. Architectures and implementations that will be shown are applicable to most installations, so everyone should benefit from the approaches presented..

Features such as FCF, FAN, ONS, Transaction Guard, Application Continuity, Global Data Services and Application VIP’s and their use will be covered. Many of these as used with 12c RAC and Data Guard provide a solution for Disaster Recovery database switchover and application failover that can be performed with virtually no downtime to the online user community.

Alternate options such as Active Data Guard, GoldenGate, disk mirroring and a RAC Stretch Cluster will be reviewed with the pros and cons of each. High availability solution. Approaches for performing online application upgrades using Edition Based Redefinition or GoldenGate will be presented with their advantages and disadvantages for home-built and purchased third party applications. Database physical design considerations that facilitate online application upgrades will be reviewed. Patching and upgrading all components of the system from servers to the operating system, middleware and database with the system online will be examined.

You will come away from this with a practical understanding of many of high availability features as they can be used in the industry today and the realization that you can implement complete HA solution on your own systems!

How do I use Data Guard, Broker, Snapshot Standby and Flashback database to perform integrated disaster recovery tests without interrupting production? In this session you will learn how Paychex leveraged Oracle Dataguard to build a new remote data center, automate Data Guard Broker to activate 21 mission and business critical databases as Snapshot Standby, perform…

Uptime, Redundancy, Resiliency, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Replication - all of these terms highlight the need to keep the wheels rolling for your Oracle systems. It is crucial to prepare for both planned and unplanned interruptions, and while the concepts will be easy to grasp, it can be difficult to know where to start. This…

Ever hear the phrase, "When I test, I test in production?" It can be a great way to test an upgrade or migration before you take the outage on your production system. In this session you will learn how the Electric Reliability Council of Texas not only reduced their outage window but also gained confidence…