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

ChatOps is an automation model connecting users and tools to processes through messaging applications. It leverages the simplicity and familiarity of chat to empower users to interact directly with applications and databases, retrieving information, and performing work in real-time. Done right, ChatOps is a safe, agile way to minimize or eliminate tedious, repetitive operational tasks and reduce workloads. Virtually anything can be automated or called via ChatOps through simple commands—from self-service password resets, to initiating reporting cycles, to running ad hoc refreshes of development environments—all without granting end users access to a database or application.

This session covers:
-Connecting Oracle databases in the Cloud or on-premises to chat services via REST
-Considerations for building database APIs to handle ChatOps interactions
-Methods for securing communications between the database and application
-Practical examples of ChatOps integrations

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Oracle is revolutionizing how data is managed with the introduction of the world’s first self-driving database. Oracle Enterprise Manager offers a unified, cost-effective, and easy way to automate the migration of your on-premises database workloads to the next generation of industry-leading database, Oracle Autonomous Database, eliminating human labor and error. For Database Cloud Services, Enterprise Manager helps DBA’s consolidate Databases or Infrastructure on OCI Cloud and also assess success of migration. Reap benefits from seamlessly transferred configurations, periodic synchronization of data with production, and “time travel” capabilities such as rewind/refresh. Join this session to learn more.

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

Application Express (APEX) continues to grow in popularity for application development, both for new business use cases as well as migration from older development technologies (e.g. PowerBuilder). But many developers and DBAs alike aren’t necessarily aware that APEX is now available within Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, a powerful self-contained set of Cloud-based database services.

This session demonstrates a real-life business scenario – the creation of a financial services/retirement planning application – that combines best practices for APEX development efforts with ATP’s simplicity to provide a stable deployment for hybrid OLTP and reporting workloads.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Have you moved beyond just sending alerts and monitoring performance in OEM?  If not, learn the top 5 things that you should be doing to take your game to the next level.  Topics will include high availability, standby management, configuration management, and more!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

In this session join Oracle Database Product Management to learn more about using JSON in the Oracle Database. Learn about some of the new innovative ways that the Oracle Database can be used to load, store, and manage JSON and take advantage of the enterprise class features that Oracle provides so well.

We will also take a look into the unique Oracle Database features to leverage memory-persistent technologies for fast ingestion and retrieval of attribute-value pair data.  Other topics that are covered include the SQL language enhancements for complete flexibility and ease of use when working with JSON.

The session will also be discussing some of the enhancements being released in Oracle Database 20c for addressing the use of JSON.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

With Oracle's release of Autonomous DataWarehouse, Autonomous Database, and Autonomous Transaction Processing, we are entering a new era in database administration.  How is an old-school DBA supposed to survive in this brave new world of automation?  Are my existing skills obsolete? Am I out of a job? Never fear.  In this session, we'll discuss what exactly all this autonomous fuss is all about and what it will mean to the daily life of a DBA.  We'll draw comparisons to (soon to be legacy) tasks that all DBA's are comfortable with and how these tasks will be handled in an autonomous world.  We'll show you how to leverage your old school skills to be your biggest advantage in an autonomous world and position you to take your career to the next level in an Autonomous World.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

The most on-premises installations of Oracle databases are not using all available Oracle database packs and features. The reasons behind that could be different but one factor is always there and it is the cost. In Oracle cloud depending on service and edition, you may have a different set of features already included in the subscription. In such a case it is worth verifying and consider the new options since you are already paying for them.  And, who knows, maybe the availability of all those features will make migration to the cloud way more attractive and be one of the main drivers for your decision to move to the Oracle cloud.