Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Complex performance situations are not always quickly diagnosable using an AWR time-based analysis or an ASH sample-based analysis. And certainly, the diagnosis will not be completed the second new data becomes available or before a support ticket has been received!

A solution is to use a supervised learning classification machine learning model. We can train the model to recognize and "understand" a virtually unlimited number of Oracle performance and business-related data.

Once trained, we will present the model with just-available data asking, for example, if a support ticket will likely be submitted. Or perhaps, if the performance will likely be green, yellow, or red.

Join me as I build a "Poor Performance" indicator using 100% free industry-standard tools, such as Python and the "Always Free" Oracle Autonomous Database with Oracle ML SQL Notebooks. All presentation slides, scripts, and a recording of the demonstration are available!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

According to research, organizations in the top tier of data literacy had a greater enterprise value of 3 to 5 percent. What is data literacy? It's the ability to read, work with, analyze and argue the data. Learn how to grow yourself and your organization by increasing data literacy. We'll talk about four different data personalities and an action plan for each personality to increase their data potential.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

AWS continuously rolls out new tools and capabilities around analytics at a pace that can be hard to keep up with, much less take advantage of.  In this session, we will provide an overview of the AWS suite of analytics tools, discuss current concepts such as data lakes, unstructured data, ML and AI, and review some ways that customers can begin experimenting on their own to see what areas would be beneficial to their business.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Database In-Memory is targeted at speeding up analytic queries by orders of magnitude over traditional row-based queries. Join Oracle Product Management in a journey that will take you through the architecture and features of Database In-Memory. Learn how to get started with Database In-Memory, how to identify which objects to populate in memory, how to identify which indexes to drop, and details on how to integrate it with other performance-enhancing features of Oracle Database. This session will also show you how Database In-Memory speeds up your analytic workload and will provide tips on how to configure Oracle Database to get the biggest performance benefits. This session will not cover what Database In-Memory is, but will instead tell you how it works and what to do to implement it.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Powerful Machine Learning (ML) is now available to Oracle DBAs. Over the past few years, a number of changes have occurred making this possible. As Oracle DBAs, it is now our turn to leverage ML, enabling us to do things never before possible.

But there is a lot to learn. Everything from methodology to math to tools. And then the nagging question of, are there real machine learning use cases for the Oracle DBA?

In this presentation, I'm going to introduce you to the world of ML from a DBA perspective! This includes understanding what ML is, why use it, and why now. The ah-ha moment will occur when you realize many of our monitoring, alerting, diagnosis, and analysis skills are significantly enhanced with ML.

I will demonstrate a simple yet complete ML project using Python and the "Always Free" Oracle Autonomous Database with Oracle ML SQL Notebooks. All presentation slides, scripts, and a recording of the demonstration are available!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Do you know how a large and complex organization like LA Unified School District has successfully rolled out a comprehensive business intelligence application that is business-oriented and producing results with data-driven decisions!  LAUSD Enterprise Reporting uses Kafka, ODI and Oracle technology components to deal with never-ending streams of events, to use Real-time or near-real-time processing to detect patterns and trends,  to build a suite of interactive dashboards based on streaming data integration for district executives, principals, teachers, counselors, and families with over 300 K-12 metrics and KPIs that provide whole child, whole school, whole district insight.  The session is planned as an interactive one, with a real-time demo, presented by a senior leader of the School District who has played a key role in the planning and execution of the huge effort.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Robots may be the first to truly learn Machine Learning (ML) and expand into Artificial Intelligence (AI). Python is one of the keys to Machine Learning as we program the invention of Man's Mind to further replace man's most basic tasks. This session will focus on ML 101 and building the future ahead.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

With the explosion of data points coming from ERP transaction systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and the digital revolution, it’s never been more important to quickly uncover and communicate insights within your data to the business. Attend this session to learn how to choose, design, and deliver the best visualizations to effectively communicate the significance of your key metrics and trends.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

We are creatures of habit. We tend to stay the course concerning what we create and how we create it. But is this tendency causing us to settle for just good enough? From OBIEE to Data Visualization Desktop to Oracle Analytics Cloud… this is not your parent’s OBIEE. Maybe it’s time for a reboot?

In this presentation, we’ll explore the new face of Oracle Analytics, both literally by looking at Oracle Data Visualization, and figuratively with how advances in the platform can affect our approach and methodology. If you are new to Oracle Analytics, I’ll convince you that this product is capable of enabling a data-driven culture. If you’ve been around the block a few times with OBIEE, then I’ll make you question how you’ve delivered analytics in the past.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Can you convert an integrated Data Warehouse to a set of Micro Services?

In this presentation we discuss the benefits of Micro Services, look at how we can convert a working Data Warehouse into independent microservices, discuss the pitfalls and demonstrate a real-life project where we converted our Data Warehouse to Micro Services.  This enabled a small team to provide frequent releases, increase automation, and become more agile.