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…

Do you want to surf a tidal wave of performance? Oracle Database In-Memory, with its industry-first dual row/column in-memory format has you covered! In this session we will introduce Database In-Memory and review some of its class leading technologies that enable billions of rows per second analytic data access while simultaneously enabling superfast OLTP performance.…

In this session learn about making your applications highly availability, with no application knowledge and no application changes This session will teach you about configuring your applications for high availability using Services, FAN, drain points, and Application Continuity.  The session covers tuning for zero brownout with RAC and Active Data Guard and how to know…

Implementing RAC with Data Guard?  Maybe on an Exadata or ODA?  Ever wonder: how do I quickly and easily check the status of all of my databases?  How do I easily report on space usage by database in ASM?  Should I configure Data Guard to use the SCAN listener?  Where and how should I run…

Not that long ago it was so simple: if you were a developer who wanted to work with an Oracle development tool, you used Oracle Forms. Period. End of story. Now, and this is particularly true in the past couple of years, the number of Oracle development tools has grown to the point where it…

Tabular Forms to edit multiple rows of data have been available since the beginning of Oracle Application Express. But they come with some restrictions, like only supporting one Tabular Form on a page. In addition they are missing support for all the cool built-in features available in Interactive Reports. In APEX 5.1, we’ve designed a…

While APEX 5.0 was primarily focused on developer productivity and creating modern user interfaces, APEX 5.1 will be a huge leap in end user productivity. See how the Interactive Grid will bring dynamic, rich-client reporting and multi-row editing capabilities to your APEX applications and how the new, powerful charting engine - based on Oracle’s own JavaScript…

Learn about the major new features planned for Oracle Application Express 5.1. These include a new Interactive Grid, ability to declaratively define master/detail/detail pages, a new charting engine, numerous improvements to Page Designer, and improved wizards for creating pages and regions.

There seems to be a mis-perception that APEX based applications are better suited to one off projects than to enterprise application suites. Based on his personal experience, the presenter will show the best practices whereby APEX can indeed be used as a platform for building enterprise wide suites of applications that are quickly and easily…

APEX gains ground every year with the Oracle development community. How are people really using the tool? What are they using it for? How happy are they? This paper will summarize the experiences of development teams throughout the world and provide an overview of their usage and perceptions of the environment.