Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100440

It seemed so simple—migrate a relatively small legacy database from DB2 to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse. Nobody knew the dark secrets this database was hiding before the SOW was signed and the project was underway, but by then it was too late! Follow along as a well-planned project grows from unassuming and ordinary into a monster, devouring everything in its path and tossing aside timelines! A twisting tale, full of wrong turns and peril, heroes and villains, challenge, failure, ultimately ending with... Wait, you didn't think I'd give away the ending, did you?

This session is not a reference or a how-to. It's more of a what-not-to-do, reflecting and laughing (in hindsight) at a series of unfortunate circumstances and mistakes. It's a set of lessons in resilience and determination. It's about overcoming technical obstacles and human objections, and leveraging the tools and features in OCI so they all lived... Well, let's not spoil things!

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100680

We will look under the hood of a famous monolith: How does the Oracle Database really work? The RDBMS has to keep many promises to ensure consistent transactional operations. Most of them are found in the acronym "ACID".

We will hear explanations to terms like A in Archivelog or Alert Log or ASM, H as in High Availability, M like Multitenant, R like Redo Log, S as in spfile, T like Tablespace, and U like Undo.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100560

Enabling and sustaining the highest possible performance along with continued application availability is a major goal for all mission-critical applications in order to meet the demanding business SLA’s. Harnessing key features in the latest vSphere release 7.0 U1 including Persistent memory, Para Virtualized RDMA, 1GB Huge Pages, vNVME Controllers, Improved Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Assignable Hardware, Refactored vMotion, etc helps achieve those stringent business goals. This session discusses accelerating Oracle Enterprise IO-intensive workloads with vSphere 7.0 new features enhancing high availability, faster data loading, etc, and share key considerations and lessons learned.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100320 

Oracle Autonomous Database and its Oracle Machine Learning Environment

Based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Autonomous Database cloud service is optimized for several workloads options: Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), and Oracle Autonomous JSON Database.

This discussion will cover the Oracle Autonomous Database cloud service, its components, its provisioning process, and its free trial tier and always free offering. This session will also discuss the Oracle Machine Learning service that comes with Oracle Autonomous Database and how database professionals can take advantage of this environment to start learning Oracle machine learning.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 101720

The death of Oracle Forms has been greatly exaggerated. Despite 2 decades of development, Forms is still the backbone of thousands of mission-critical applications worldwide. But where do our tried and true Forms stand while all systems are undergoing a user experience revolution or moving to the cloud? In this session, we will show how Oracle Forms is now a full member of Oracle’s cloud, mobile, and even Chat ecosystem. We will review the 4 ways that you can extend your existing Forms investments to the cloud, including:

-“Lift-and-Shift” your Forms servers to Cloud Servers - OCI
-Extending your applications using Oracle’s rapid development tool Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS)
-Leveraging existing business logic through Chat interfaces using Digital Assistant cloud service
-Doing DevOps using Developer Cloud Service.

The answer to how to bring your Forms into the next generation will be revealed during this session. Along with live demos and Q&A.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100910

This talk is for database and information security professionals.

The database holds the crown jewels of the organization; however, the infosec security teams have little understanding of working of the database and database developers, designers, and DBAs have little understanding of security concepts. I get it, we get pressure from the top and the users to deliver a system with little time or budget to apply to database security. In this talk, we are going to take the 10,000 meter view of the database and look at the attack surface, attack vectors, and how to mitigate those attacks. At the end of the presentation, developers, designers, and DBAs will have action items they can take back to their shop and start improving security.

Presented at Quest Experience Week (QXW) - Database & Technology Day

Introducing Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM), Oracle's premier automated tool for moving your database from on-premises to the Oracle Cloud. ZDM is an automated tool that leverages the best of high availability and scalability solutions at Oracle  thus moving your Oracle Database to the Oracle Cloud with no downtime. In this session, we will cover in-depth the full range of features and functionality of Oracle Zero Downtime Migration, how it was designed and built, and how it can be leveraged for all your migration needs. We will finish by discussing the roadmap for ZDM and all things Oracle Database Cloud Migration.